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  I will use this space to periodically write (monthly or bimonthly if possible) thoughts that interest me and hopefully You also. This will be an informal thought stream of varying complexity. Please do let me know what you think and if you have any questions and particular areas of interest. I will do my best to answer in as timely a way as possible. May 2011 “Monthly Thoughts” Have you ever been to an “amusement park” like Disneyland or some other place that has all kinds of activities rides, exhibits, foods and unusual things to do? Maybe there was a roller-coaster or other rides that were exciting and even scary? Maybe there were games you could play and if you were skillful at things you might be able to win through playing them? Such places are meant to provide you with stimulation to entertain, amuse and challenge you. They are really very “safe” even though some rides and activities give the appearance of great danger and risk. These places seem different that our usual, normal lives. They can give freshness and newness to our lives. It is the contrast they provide that helps to stimulate us; it helps to provide challenge and offers us the opportunity to do something that seems risky or unusual. YOU are a vast multidimensional being. YOU are an eternal being with no beginning or end. YOU exist in a place with no time limitations or restrictions. YOU are pure positive energy, a huge vortex of LOVE. YOU know everything that is going to happen and has happened; everything where YOU exist is in a state of “NOW” that is almost unimaginably foreign from the usual Earthly perspective. So what do you do for fun, growth and amusement? One of the things YOU do is to allow a part of YOURSELF to separate from the greater part that really is YOU, that vast multidimensional being that is YOU. This part YOU allow to have limitations, restrictions, challenges and opportunities for creativity and growth. Since YOU are connected to this part, YOU receive growth and benefit from what this part experiences. In fact, YOU only grow by YOUR connection to this part of YOU! Can you guess where this is going? YOU allow this part of YOU to incarnate on a place like Earth! This part (a fragment of YOU) then gets to experience the Amusement Park Earth!! On earthly incarnation this part of YOU forgets all of what it really is and often even thinks it is all there is. It often becomes very serious and takes everything as if it were a life and death matter or decision. It even thinks “death” is the end to everything and an awful dreadful end to itself and life. When in fact death is the reuniting with the greater aspect, the whole of who and what YOU really are!!! So, with the above understanding, why not enjoy your time here on Earth? Why not seek out those things that offer joy, expansion, creativity and opportunities to share, express and experience love in all its many forms and aspects? There is so much more to this and I may write some more to fill in and offer a greater understanding of how this all works together. I would really like it if you could understand the connection between you and YOU (the greater part of you that is non physical) and how to manifest the life you really desire consciously and gracefully here on Earth. I would like to assist you in letting go of those things that slow down your ability to manifest, to create and to love more fully and deeply. In Light, Love & Service, Adama ****************************************************************************************************************** April 2011 “Monthly Thoughts” I have been working with people for a long time as a therapist of one sort or another and have seen many people, over 35 years of my life. I find that some people are so different in how they think and view and interact in the world that it is as if they were from a different planet, no less country. I have had a tendency to expect others to be more like me and even judge them from my standards of interacting and ways of being in the world. Sometimes this does them a great disservice, for they actually are much more aware and in tune than I ever suspected. They just exhibit and interact in a way that is sometimes strange and unusual to me. Even those people that seem very similar to us and whom we perceive as thinking mostly the same way as we do can have some surprisingly different ways of interacting when they are under stress that may be less functional in an adult relationship. Often stress results in a narrowing and activation of old patterns of behavior that were learned as a child or young person and not necessarily helpful to a mature adult friendship or loving relationship. Often these people can reflect back to us ways that we were interacted with as a child or young person. They can now give us the opportunity to transform and grow beyond old limiting ways of interacting and behavior patterns! I suggest when this happens, it is a good time to take a closer look at yourself, to step back and not just react from your habits and pain. Things may not be as you think they are. Often when we feel hurt it is that child part of us that feels hurt, rejected, unloved and not cared for. When we nurture and care for our inner child first or when it is hurting our interactions with others take on a completely different shape and form. We all invite people and friends and lovers into our worlds so we can grow and change, so we can transform and heal some of our own wounds from our past. These people really do us a great service by helping us to see where we are off and not functioning as highly as we think and wish to in the world. It is easy to blame them (the other person), to say they are the problem or the cause of our pain, discomfort and negative feelings. We may choose not to stay friends with such people, but if we do not understand ourselves and heal our own wounds then we will call others into our lives that will offer us what appears to be the same thing and the cycle starts over once again until we clear ourselves of behaviors that do not really serve us. We are vibrational beings and are continually offering vibrations into the world. Our thoughts generate vibrations, our feelings radiate vibration. Our vibrations and feelings attract similar vibrations and feelings to us, like a magnet attracts metal to itself. Helped by the reflection that those we attract into our lives give us, we can see what sorts of vibrations we are radiating out into the world. If we do not like what is manifesting in our lives then we must set about the task of changing our thoughts and feelings. We are the ones who can bring about the changes we desire by shifting and changing ourselves. Trying to shift and change others is an almost hopeless task that brings little satisfaction to anyone. So, if you do not like what is manifesting in your life it is time to turn inward and become more conscious of the vibrations you are radiating out into the world. You can change your vibrations with conscious thoughts, focus and actions supportive of what you really want to have in your life. You can seek assistance from those who you resonate with to help you move into new ways of interacting and being in the world. You can have help in transforming old patterns and behaviors into new more functional ones. This can all be done with grace and ease and may not be as difficult as at first it might appear. Your journey forward starts with one step and before that step there is a vibration you sent ahead before the physical action. I intend to be as clear as I can with my vibration, my own self transformation first, so my steps lead to where I really want to go and find that I arrive with those who I really want to be with. Wishing you great clarity, joy, enthusiasm, creativity and love, Adama ******************************************************************* March 2011 “Monthly Thoughts” It has been challenging times since I last wrote. So very much has happened and moved with and through me and so many of those I love. Having worked in Japan for 9 previous years an earthquake or two was not unexpected. An earthquake with the magnitude of 9+, multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns and a tsunami altogether causing over 10,000 deaths, 300,000 people becoming without their usual shelter and the leakage of radiation from damaged nuclear reactors core meltdowns was not expected! On March 11 at 14:46 I was standing and beginning to complete a session in Tokyo with a wonderful Japanese woman. Our world will never be the same again. We did complete the session and then the ongoing nuclear meltdowns, tsunami and the over 200 smaller earthquakes in the Tokyo area continued throughout the day I left on March 17. I had the opportunity to leave Tokyo on Monday the 14 but received direct guidance in meditation to stay and complete my work and assist in all the ways I could working as an Holographic Harmonizer to help with my physical presence the energy grids of Japan to be more stable as well as to assist in holding an energy of calm, safety and the outlook for the highest possibilities to arise out of such terrible circumstances. On March 16 at the end of a long meditation I very clearly received the message that my work was done that required my physical presence and within 20 minutes I received a call from my coordinator in Tokyo that all my clients had cancelled their remaining sessions that were scheduled and I could leave on the next available flight. Everything worked out perfectly for me to leave on the following day. Such a dramatic and often traumatic occurrence challenges us to rise to our highest and best ways of being in a physical body here on Earth. We have the opportunity to offer our greatest gifts of love, kindness, compassion and sharing in such times. We are all connected and can assist each other close together and from afar. If you are reading this then you are a Lightworker (a physically embodied soul who has chosen to be here on Earth and to hold a particular frequency and shine a divine light in ways unique only to you). You have prepared for countless lifetimes for this “job” and have all the skills and tools necessary to be a beacon of love, hope, peace, calmness, safety and clarity in dark times. I am honored to be able to share this role with you! We are brothers and sisters dedicated in holding the light, in holding a vision of higher possibilities and ways of being right now and for the future. You may do this in what seems very small ways or in larger more “seen” ways. Each and every contribution of the light you hold and ground into your own area and family is of immense value. Those who have chosen to leave this physical existence are helping from just beyond our vision from their expanded viewpoints and with all the knowledge and awareness’s that they have gained from this lifetime on Earth. Your dedication to shinning your own personal light during this lifetime, to hold your heart ever more open and radiant is like a brilliant cloak with colors unique to only you. You will have this cloak (the shinning colors) around you forever whenever you incarnate anywhere again as a physical being. Your unique and beautiful colors can be seen by all those with the eyes to see as a sign of who and what you have been and done during such challenging times. Please do hold your head high even as you sometimes grieve the apparent passing of those you care so deeply for and love, of a land damaged and so many people choosing to see less that the highest possibility in any given situation. Your thoughts, feelings and emotions absolutely have power and now is the time to use them to hold the light of all highest probabilities. Your dreams now will help create the future that you will move into. Please dream your highest dreams, hold your highest vision for yourself, humanity and the Earth! Wishing you Much Love and Brilliant Radiance of All You Are for the Highest Benefit of ALL!!! Adama ********************************************************************* February 2011 “Monthly Thoughts” When I do sessions I often see clients who have some very challenging concerns that they see as problems, which cause them much pain and suffering. When such things have physically manifested into chronic dis-ease (disease), painful manifestations in their body and lack of physical energy there is still the possibility of very quick shifting and transitioning into a much better feeling and manifesting place. This can be done through working within the person’s non-physical energy fields that interface with their physical body. It is often the case that what has been constricted can be released from a non-physical energy movement and positioning that allows for the release and opening in the physical body. More often than not, there is no need to explore the “why” something became the way it did. It is often the case that describing why something became the way it did can actually keep that same dynamic continuing. Just because our mental body (our mind) wants to understand something or feels that once something is understood it will not be a problem does not mean it is “true” or it will be helpful to dissect what has been cleared, moved, transformed or raised to a higher vibration! What is far more productive is to do those things that will allow the permanent shift into a higher vibration. Like after you use the toilet and flushing the toilet, fresh clean water is brought in and not more waste material. What is almost always more important is to bring in and maintain clean new vibrations. The very act of raising your vibration does all the cleaning necessary. Another way of looking at this is if I was hired to clean your house and then cleaned your house perfectly, spotlessly and each day you brought back in disorder, chaos and threw dirt and ugly things all over your house once again the overall problem of having a dirty house would continue. I help to energetically open, clean, clear and align a person so they can shift into a higher vibration. So the question is not how did my house get so dirty but how can I raise my vibration in such a way that my house is pure and clean by my conscious actions to live in such a way that offers the greatest chance for alignment, clarity, joy, happiness and love. This focus in itself creates a high vibration that invites the changes in your life that you very much desire to come to you. It is an invitation to the Universe to fill your house with beauty, clarity, love, joy, creativity and happiness naturally arises. Does this make sense to you? Let go of the past and look forward, not backward. Look forward to what you want, to what you dream of, to what you aspire to create, to expand into, to what brings the most love and fulfillment imaginable. In Love, Light & Service, Adama ************************************************************************* January 2011 “Monthly Thoughts” This New Year has brought an unexpected challenge to me in the loss of a very close and dear friend, teacher, mentor and “adopted” Father, Dr. Ron Kurtz, the founder of Hakomi Therapy. He suddenly and unexpectedly passed from this Earthly existence on January 4, 2011. Ron taught me how to be a better “Human” in the highest sense of the word, more loving, compassionate and kind. He has been one of my most significant teachers and will live on through me in my thoughts and deeds. Ron has passed down his Legacy of Hakomi training and teaching for me to carry forward by naming me in his Will as one of the, “True representatives and holders, legally and spiritually, of my Legacy.” I will do my best to honor his teachings and the spirit of his life’s work through all I interact with. I have never cried so many tears and shown so much emotion and grief in public ever before in my life. It has challenged me and continues to challenge me to really be open to feel all my feelings and not to constrict, not to close down and continue to expand when my first impulse is to close myself off and not let the movement of energy that wants to move through me. Somehow I have falsely learned that constricting will somehow “protect” me and keep me safe. A death of a close loved one gives the gift of bringing more awareness to my every waking moment. False beliefs and ways of being in the world that really do not serve me are suddenly made more conscious. Dramatic events have that ability to shake us up enough to allow us to “wake-up” and see more clearly. They help to bring our lives into sharper perspective and to focus on what is really important, possibly letting go of what no longer fits from a more clear and awakened viewpoint. In an internal and eternal dance we are all continually dying and being reborn every day. This is our personal dance of letting go of what no longer serves us and awakening to that which does. When we do not let go and move forward we can become “stuck” and instead of expanding we contract. When we are contracted it becomes very difficult to live the life that we may have dreamed of having. Our timing and balance can become out of sync with the flow and current of life. We all came here to Earth to expand and grow, to be in the flow of life with joy, health, creativity, love and expansion into the new, into the unknown. It is not necessary to experience dramatic events in your life to be a catalyst for awakening. We can live in such a way that we are gently and gracefully allowing ourselves to become more and more conscious and aware. Having a simple daily meditation practice gives many gifts that unfold slowly over time. Paying attention to how we are feeling and choosing to follow feelings that support and nurture ourselves over what other people may tell us and even demand of us prevents the constrictions that slow us down in our possible growth and living of a graceful life. Listening to our inner guidance offers us the wisest answers to life’s challenges and questions. The sessions that I offer, the work that I do in its various formats all Focus on allowing you to become more free, to wake-up, let go of unnecessary suffering, and become more connected to your higher sources of wisdom and knowing. As you become more connected to the larger aspects of yourself, your life naturally improves and becomes clearer, better, and more fulfilling. You find the love and connection that is all around you and then you can become a source of help and nourishment to others. I would like to leave you with a poem by Rumi that speaks of one way to eloquently live each day. In Light, Love & Service, Adama The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. The Essential Rumi, versions by Coleman Barks *********************************************************************** December 2010 “Monthly Thoughts” You are made of vibration. The world around you is made of different vibrations and the frequencies of those vibrations. Friends and clients often ask me, “Why am I not feeling well and have physical health problems?” I would like to try and answer this in a way that you can understand, though it may not make sense to you, and even might feel less than satisfying. My answer will be from a very energy-centered perspective, a perspective that is based on vibration, the vibration that the physical “you” is holding and radiating out into the world. For my answer to make sense to you there needs to be several basic understandings or assumptions: 1. We are vibration (energy) and live in a world made of vibrations or various forms of energy, some of which seems more physical than others or is denser than other forms of vibration. 2. The understanding that this physical “you” who is reading this is actually the physical manifestation of a larger non-physical “you” I call your Higher-Self. 3. Your Higher-Self is the source of your energy, life and vitality. The Higher-Self is continuously sending “you” that which enables you to be alive and physically focused. 4. Your Higher-Self always focuses on what is the highest vibration possible for you and holds that focus and intent unwaveringly. It focuses on love to the exclusion on anything that is not of this frequency or vibration. 5. The physical “you” and the “you” that is your Higher-Self is always connected and in communication. 6. The physical “you” who is reading this feels the guidance and communication from your Higher-Self the non-physical “you” through your FEELINGS. 7. Alignment feels good. Following your Higher-Self’s guidance feels good, expansive, loving, clear, alive, creative, fun and exciting. Not following your Higher-Self’s guidance feels bad, restrictive, dull, unclear and lacking aliveness or creativity. 8. When you “feel” bad, less alive, restricted and in emotional pain it is because the physical “you” is not in alignment with that greater part of “you” the larger non-physical part that is the source of your life force, your Higher-Self. This is what is actually causing you the discomfort (your lack of alignment with the greater wiser aspect of you) and not the person, place or thing that seems to be causing your discomfort! 9. Similar energy attracts similar energy; the vibration you hold and put out into the world attracts the same kind of vibration back to you. 10. We live in a YES-based Universe that offers to us through our vibration (the vibration we are holding). The vibrations we are holding and radiating out are matched and are attracted to us. You get what you focus on! Now getting back to the question poised at the beginning. The simple answer why you or anyone else has not been feeling well is because you or they are not following what the greater part of themselves (Higher-Self) has aligned with and this is restricting the flow of life force or energy from the Higher-Self causing restrictions and blocks in the physical body’s energy systems. When this lack of alignment becomes a habit, things get worse and worse over time. Most often we try and sort this out to see if we can figure just what has caused what or try to intellectually figure out how did I get to this place of dis-ease that I am feeling and seeing physically manifesting all around me. More often than not this attempt at figuring it all out is not productive and only activates the energy (vibration) that does not serve us to be "healthy". Intellectual knowing does not necessarily generate health and well being. In fact focusing continually on intellectually understanding something that seems to be causing you pain and suffering tends to set up a resonance with this type of energy (more pain and suffering) and you then attract more of it! Remember, what you focus on is what you invite more of into your life! So, what is most productive and healthy is to let go of the past and move forward into the new, into the energy that is free of those things restricting your connection with your Higher-Self. So, I encourage and offer ways to move forward into health; not backwards into blocks. Thinking that by intellectually "understanding" what caused something that has physically manifested into a dis-ease (disease) or challenging physical symptoms and that you then can avoid or cure it makes linear sense. Unfortunately this does not usually work because the cause is almost always very complex, often non-linear and often beyond our ability to truly understand all the components and their interactions that really make it up. It is far more productive to let the past go and move forward to where you want to go. It is like if you tried to drive a car forward by looking through the rear window all the time. You would crash more often than not before you finally got to where you really wanted to go. This answer may not feel very satisfying, and I apologize if that is so. However, it may contain the information why you and others have continued to be less healthy and "well" than the body is capable of being. Let go of the past and move forward. Focus on what you want as much as possible in ways that feel good and uplifting to you. Simply focusing on what feels good and nourishing in the present will take you into the energetic space where all that you really want is much more easily attracted to you. As always, it comes down to similar energy attracts similar energy. Your thoughts are energy. How you feel is energy. Energy is vibration. Opening to feeling better by thinking thoughts that “feel” good to you and doing things that feel good to you and nourish you naturally sets up a vibration that attracts a similar vibration. I invite you as we move into the very auspicious New Year of 2011 to do all in your ability to let go of the past that no longer serves you and to focus on what you really want more of in your life. Do whatever you need to do to bring yourself into greater alignment with your Higher-Self. Focus more on love and being loving. Put your time and energy into those things that bring you more love, joy, expansion, creativity, openness, clarity and to do the things that simply “feel” good to you. I look forward to our mutual movement forward into greater alignment, more love and joy now and in the New Year! In Light, Love & Service, Adama ************************************************************************* November 2010 “Monthly Thoughts” We are in very dynamic times filled with potential for movement in all directions. The energies pouring into the Earth are becoming increasingly more powerful than any time in modern history. Our thoughts and what we focus on can more easily be manifested than ever before. We have the potential to invite change into our lives like never before. We have the opportunity to use the power of “Now” to assist, support and create the future we really want. Each of your thoughts has a particular vibration and feeling associated with it. This vibration could be likened to a specific channel or a radio signal. When you tune a radio to a particular channel (wave length) this is all you can get or hear on the radio. If you could chose one vibration and this was all you thought, felt or focused on then the Universe would quickly and easily bring this same vibration and feeling to you in a physically manifested form. If you could be so disciplined and narrow to be so single focused to only think, feel and vibrate love, then the only thing that possibly could be drawn to you would be a matching manifestation of love in a multiplicity of forms. Since almost all us here on earth do not have the ability to focus so precisely on one particular vibration or channel (like the channel on a TV), we find all kinds of things physically manifesting in our lives. Some of these are wanted and others not so wanted. Yet all of them come in response to the vibration we are sending out and the loving Universe simply gives us what we are “asking for”. Please remember, we ask through the predominant vibrations we are sending out in any given moment. What is the main vibration you are sending out to the Universe through your focus, thoughts, feelings and emotions? You can easily see what your predominant vibration is by observing what is currently manifesting in your life right now. If you do not like what you are seeing, or some of what you are seeing, then you must change your vibration to match what you really want more of in your life. Focusing on what you want in a positive way that feels good to you begins to shift your vibration, to tune your vibration in a way that naturally attracts what you desire. You can not just “think” positive thoughts, you must also FEEL the positive aspects of what you desire. Feel the qualities of what you want rather than the thing, object or possibly person. If you want more love in your life begin to FEEL all the things that you love and appreciate in your life right now. Feel the pleasure of loving and nurturing something even if it is a single plant. Look at something of beauty that inspires you and fills you with joy. Explore how you share love and what helps you to feel loved. Do all you can to FEEL love here and now in this very moment. Feel how every breath you breath brings in life and love for your body to function and live. The more you appreciate things the higher your vibration raises. If you want greater health and well being, begin to feel and actively focus on what you like and appreciate about your health and well being right now. Notice what is “right” about your body rather than what is not functioning so correctly or does not look the way you would like it to. When you look in the mirror in the morning do you see all the things that are fine and OK or only what appears to you to be lacking or wrong? Make a new habit of looking for what is right and appreciating it first before what is not. If you want more money in your life begin to FEEL all the things that you love and appreciate about having more money in your life right now. Do not focus on any lack you may currently be experiencing, focus on what you do have and what is currently working. Think and feel how much fun it would be to have all the money necessary to take a month-long vacation somewhere you may have always desired. Imagine purchasing gifts for those you love and yourself and how nice it feels giving and receiving. Give yourself a little gift each day and then thank yourself for caring and offering. Appreciating even the smallest things helps to shift your vibration. Making time to do simple meditations and visualizations that feel good to you and that focus in on positive and appreciating ways what you want more of in your life invites it to you. This only works if it FEELS good to you. Taking only 10 minutes each day to really feel and appreciate the qualities of what you want more of in your life shifts your vibration toward that thing, it invites it into your life. Please try this little meditation or visualization for 7 days. 1.Take a minute to get calm and centered. 2. Imagine how it would feel to have whatever you want most in your life right now. (If this feels good, continue. If for some reason it does not feel good then you have some resistance that needs to be cleared before proceeding.) 3. Feel how this energy fills you and moves throughout your body. Let the good feelings and energy of all the qualities of what you are imagining fill you and anchor inside of you. 4. Stay with the good feelings as long as you want and have time for. (If for some reason your mind begins to wander or the feelings become less positive, bring yourself back to a more present and positive feeling place gently and lovingly.) 5. When you feel complete, end the meditation knowing that you have positively raised your vibration and enjoy the feeling that your desires are more quickly moving to you. I wish you to have great joy, creativity, passion, ever increasing health, happiness and love that overflows from you to fill your world and all those around you! In Light, Love & Service, Adama ************************************************************************* October 2010 “Monthly Thoughts” My life seems to be moving ever so fast in many directions at once all at the same time. There is expansion in all areas and I am amazed at simply how wonderful everything is unfolding. I hope your life as well is unfolding and expanding in ways that you desire. I have been reading a book called, Buddha’s Brain the practical neuroscience of happiness, love & wisdom written by Rick Hansen PH.D. & Richard Mendius, MD. This book talks about how the latest research in neuroscience combined with the wisdom gained from thousands of years of contemplative practices (primarily Buddhist) shows how our flow of thoughts actually sculpt our brains. Simply stated how we think shapes our brain and we can think in ways that simply and clearly give us a life filled with greater love, happiness and wisdom. Through evolution we as a species have evolved neural patterns and pathways in our physical brain that giver greater weight to things we perceive as negative over positive. Our human brain was designed to help us survive and anything perceived as a threat or danger is given immediate and higher priority than what we might term positive things in our daily experience. Even something that seems similar to something that once may have negatively influenced us gets immediately placed in a category of danger or threat and causes a series of chemical and physiological changes within our bodies to deal with the “perceived” danger or threat. This can result in a person being in a state of stress and chemical imbalance much more often than is healthy. In relationships it generally takes 5 positive interactions to overcome the effects of one negative interaction. We are much more likely to remember the negative over the positive even if there is an overwhelming quantity of positive events or interactions (like 4 times as many). We are constructed in such a way that things we term negative are “hard wired” in our brains while things that are not are “soft wired” and much more easily forgotten and overlooked in favor of the negative. This goes on in a very unconscious way and through evolution we as a race evolved this process and way of storing and reacting to events in our lives to help us survive. This process is less helpful and often results in unnecessary suffering for us and those around us in our more civilized world and relationships. When you think of something or imagine something with your mind it causes changes in your physical brain. When you have physiological changes in your brain it triggers many chemical events in your body and this influences and changes your mind. The mind and brain are a complementary and integrated system. What you think causes physiological changes in your body that can be either advantageous to you or detrimental. The way to overcome our hard wired structures of storing and perceiving events that we have determined as negative over events that we determine as positive is through being conscious. We become more conscious when we take time to meditate every day. As we learn to simply allow what is happening and work with the focus of our mind and without reacting further to negative events (like continually remembering them and thinking about them) we allow ourselves much more grace and ease in our lives. We can consciously train ourselves to look for positive things and make sure we are noticing at a minimum 5 times as many positive things as negative ones, especially in our relationships with others. The more we focus on something, the more we think about something, the stronger the neural pathways in our brain become regarding that particular thing. We simply have to make sure we do this with positive things at the very least 5 times as much as with negative things. If you actively become aware of and focus on 10 times as many positive things in your life as negative so much the better! In this way we can help ourselves to be more balanced, healthy, happy and loving. Through our conscious focus and attention we can rise above our instinctual programming and wiring for survival and move away from that which no longer serves us. We can choose to live a more conscious life, a more loving, kind and compassionate life through our focus. Wishing you graceful consciousness and clear focus of attention! In Love, Light and Service, Adama *********************************************************************** September 2010 “Monthly Thoughts” Through July and August I have been teaching and participating in 5 weeks of Hakomi Trainings. It was a rich and full time filled with intensity, laughter, a lot of learning, joy, tears, tenderness, understandings, love and beauty. I have been honored by Dr Ron Kurtz, the founder of Hakomi Psychotherapy, by being named in his Last Will and Testament as one of 7 people to be a “true representative and holder, legally and spiritually of his legacy”. This is a very great honor and I am very pleased to be so acknowledged by the founder for my therapy skills, dedication, understanding, coaching and teaching abilities in Hakomi Therapy. What is Hakomi? Hakomi is a simple and powerful method to assist another person to discover for themselves what they may be unconscious of that is causing them unnecessary suffering in their life. When performed correctly, as it is currently being taught by Dr Kurtz, it is gentle, non-violent and very effective for working with a person who is able to become mindful and able to study his or her own automatic responses. This “mindfulness” is being able to quiet the mind enough to study ones immediate reaction to a simple statement or body movement. This quieting the mind only needs to be for 30 seconds or less. Once the automatic responses are brought to consciousness a skilled practitioner and the client can work with them. The client then can make a choice if this automatic reaction is really serving them in their life. The Hakomi Therapy process helps to shift old patterns and habits instantaneously and assist with deep and permanent changes. Shifting to a Higher Vibration In my August “Monthly Thoughts” I talked about the “Scientific Method” and the way most of us have been taught to think the world works. You may wish to read this again because what I am about to write directly refers to this understanding of how “things” work and how you can use this possibly new understanding to accelerate everything in your life to improve. I just worked with a client who has been suffering from chronic fatigue and a number of other challenges for over 7 years. He told me his session and my feedback has been very significant for him and he very kindly said I could share some of it as it might help other people. Below are two different little “meditations” that are very powerful and helpful in shifting your energy into a higher vibration as well as some information to assist in raising your vibration. From a higher vibrational place you will naturally attract those things that allow you to have a more fulfilling life. What Story Are You Living? The story you tell others and yourself is instrumental in creating your future reality. You can live in your old stories or you can write and live some very new ones. You may desire to keep some of the old and let go of what does not work for you. What will you choose? Please focus on whatever brings you pleasure and ease. Put your thoughts and attention into feelings that are alive and positive. Discover what you love and then focus on that and attend to it. Take small steps, one at a time in your new journey forward. Celebrate anything that brings you joy and lightness in thoughts and feelings. Monitor your thoughts and catch yourself when you are thinking thoughts that are depressing and restricting. Acknowledge where you are at in the moment and then move forward in any way that might bring you relief and help you to feel better. You may find that you have some old habits that do not serve you. If any become apparent to you then simply start correcting them by building new more functional ways to think and focus your attention on. Before drinking anything, take a moment to place your hands around the container and imagine that brilliant white light is flowing from your hands into the water or beverage. Imagine that the beverage is supercharged with life force and light. Use your strong focus and intent to do this each time you drink or eat anything. You only need to do this for 10 seconds or however long feels “correct” to you. Know then that whatever you are drinking or eating will be better for you than ever before. Here is simple meditation to do before sleeping and before getting up in the morning that will improve your life. 1. Imagine and think of anything that you love. 2. Really feel the love and when you can feel it strongly imagine breathing this love into your heart as a golden white light. 3. Keep doing this until your heart feels overflowing with golden white light. 4. Let this golden white light flow out from your heart and into all areas of your body and all the cells of your body. 5. Continue to breath in this golden love light into your heart allowing it to spread and overflow throughout your body and around your body for at least a meter all around you. 6. Do this for five minutes or as long as it feels good to you. You may also wish to imagine breathing in this golden white light into the center of your heart and allowing it to expand throughout your body in a breath or two anytime during the day that you are inspired to do this. As much as possible do not “force” yourself to do anything. Take the time to shift your thinking about something that you feel you must do so that you can approach it from a more open and pleasing place of intention. By focusing on all the positive or possibly positive things some action you may take or will bring you can help insure that the action taken will be supportive of your overall health and wellbeing. Wishing You Much Love, Laughter & Light, Adama ************************************************************************* August 2010 “Monthly Thoughts” As our planet vibrates higher, the rules change, the formulas change. I have been thinking about the beliefs we hold and how they shape our lives. Most of us in the Western parts of the world have been taught to believe in a scientific way of thinking. We have been taught that this is the “real” and “true” way of determining how the world really works and how and why things are the way they are. This is taught to us through the “Scientific Method”. Scientific method refers to a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning. A scientific method consists of the collection of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses. Although procedures vary from one field of inquiry to another, identifiable features distinguish scientific inquiry from other methodologies of knowledge. Scientific researchers propose hypotheses as explanations of phenomena, and design experimental studies to test these hypotheses. These steps must be repeatable in order to dependably predict any future results. Theories that encompass wider domains of inquiry may bind many independently derived hypotheses together in a coherent, supportive structure. This in turn may help form new hypotheses or place groups of hypotheses into context. Among other facets shared by the various fields of inquiry is the conviction that the process must be objective to reduce biased interpretations of the results. Another basic expectation is to document, archive and share all data and methodology so they are available for careful scrutiny by other scientists, thereby allowing other researchers the opportunity to verify results by attempting to reproduce them. This practice, called full disclosure, also allows statistical measures of the reliability of these data to be established. This process is very useful in some ways and can be much less useful in others. If we believe that how we create our personal reality is just like it is in science – that there is a static system that never changes and all you have to do is figure out the attributes of the energy of something that never changes and you will be able to control it – then you will live in and create a life that evolves much slower than possible. It would be like trying to drive a vehicle forward by only looking out the back window! As our planet vibrates higher, the rules change, the formulas change. As you vibrate higher, you begin to attract what might seem like miracles compared to when you were vibrating at lower levels. Your life begins to simply work better and better. You attract and manifest circumstances and events with the highest possible outcomes. Your health improves and you begin to live with much more love and joy in every minute. When you feel yourself vibrating lower, you know what to do to move back into higher alignment and raise your vibration higher again. As you begin to focus forward on what you want rather than how things “are” or how they “were”, you start to move faster into what is possible. As you focus on what brings you more love, joy and happiness in each choice you make your vibration naturally rises. As you focus on more positive thoughts and feelings your life improves in all ways. When you feel joy now in your day and your life, you let go of what seems to be lacking and fear fades away. When you allow your creativity to express itself and look for what is going “right” rather than what seems to be going wrong or is lacking, the Universe begins to naturally deliver what were once just dreams. So, I invite you to drive your vehicles (the vehicle of your own body as well as a bicycle or car) forward by looking forward more than backwards! Enjoy what is coming now, even before it physically arrives and the Universe will arrange little miracles for you again and again! Wishing Much Love, Laughter & Light, Adama ************************************************************************* July 2010 “Monthly Thoughts” I would like to share with you a short story that recently happened. It is about how the Universe works to support us far beyond the physical actions we take. This is a true story and I that I think is inspirational and may be well worth your time to read. I have a friend that I have known for many years who owns a small business where he works for himself. He has his challenges like we all do with making a living, navigating relationships, raising a family and living life with all its ups and downs as best as he can. He works many long hours serving the people who come into his little shop and regularly helps people in many was, often giving things away and providing work or assistance for people in need. I have seen him continually strive to be positive, learn and grow. He has helped raise a couple of children and one is just graduating from high school this year and looking to get into the best university possible. His sons both have worked at their father’s shop through the years and done many things to earn their own money for school clothing and other things they wanted. Universities, as you know are, expensive. Good ones tend to be more expensive. My friend wanted his son to get into the best university possible and he unfortunately does not have nearly the income that would allow him to pay the tuition and living expenses of even an average university. I had many conversations with him about this process long before his son graduated from High School and began to apply to the various universities. Exploring all the avenues he could think of he still came out with far less finances than the University and living expenses demanded for his son. His son works very hard at school, studying long hours, and he is an athlete. He has chosen a less popular high school sport and excelled in it through the years. He won several awards in competition and showed great promise. He was offered small scholarships from a couple of the universities he applied to. Watching this young man grow up I am continually impressed with how kind, bright happy, caring and intelligent he has become. There is much more I could say but will be brief for this story and move to the conclusion. My friend continued to do all he could to figure how to assist his son get into the University that was really the best, not necessarily the least expensive. From a logical point of view, or from an accountant’s point of view it was hopeless. There just was no way to pay for it or really borrow the money necessary to make it happen. However, they did not give up hope or stop searching for some possibility that might make this dream come true. One day, a couple of months ago, as my friend was working a man he had never seen came up to him and asked if he could speak to him about his son. Being busy and working alone in his shop my friend said no and that he had to leave immediately after work to buy supplies for his store. He told the man to come back later and talk with him another day. The man insisted and said it would be very quick. So my friend reluctantly said he would give him a couple of minutes to hear whatever he had to say. This stranger said he liked how my friend’s son was so dedicated to his sport, was an exceptional young man and heard he wanted to go to a University to pursue the sport and continue his education. He had also heard that it did not look possible because of their lack of money. The stranger said he would like to offer to pay for all my friend’s son’s university expenses as a pure gift with no restrictions! Needless to say the offer was humbly accepted with great appreciation and wonder. It is now several months later and everything is working out perfectly. I am inspired and delighted by this story! It is a real-life example that illustrates there is so much more happening behind the scenes of this great “play” we are living that we call “life”. The Universe will support us in unmanageable ways when we stay true to our desires and do not give up our hopes or our dreams. It shows us that help is available, from very unexpected sources, often when we least expect it. When we act out of love for something that inspires us, or for someone we care deeply for, trust that the Universe will arrange for amazing things to happen that might seem impossible to someone who does not trust in the mystery of life. When you are in alignment with yourself, you invite the Universe to bring to you all that you desire. The Universe loves you unconditionally and will give to you what you focus on. What are you focusing on? Is this what you want more of in you life? Wishing you Much Love and Gentle Unfolding into the Divinity that You Are! Adama ************************************************************************* June 2010 “Monthly Thoughts” In our quest for the Spiritual, we often forget that we ARE Spiritual Beings. We do not need to work to “be spiritual”. What we can do is to let go of all the things that hinder us from expressing the divine spiritual beings that we truly are. The majority of things that hinder us from expressing the highest aspects of our divinity on a daily basis are bad habits of attention and focus that we learned at an early age by our well meaning parents and through growing up in the society that we do. Our very existence here on Earth is a gift to “All That Is” (God, Goddess or whatever we might conceive of as a supreme deity, the creator of everything we are conscious of). We are each divine sparks of the greater flame of our Higher-Self, that in turn is part of the flame of a greater brilliance, that in turn is the everlasting light of All That IS. We are all sparks of divinity exploring the contrast of this earthly existence and adding our unique energetic imprint for the benefit of everything. This IS what we are, whether we are aware of it or not. Through our exploration of life and the contrast offered here on Earth we automatically assist everyone and everything to expand and become more evolved, conscious and clear. When we allow ourselves to align with our Higher-Self (our divinity) we feel great, expansive, alive, clear, creative, filled with joy and love. We find we are in the “right” place at the “right” time and everything flows gracefully and smoothly for us. We naturally say, and do the “right” things at the “right” time for ourselves and everyone else around us. So, when I let go of the things that are not allowing my Higher-Self to be more actively and consciously flowing through me on a daily basis my life is expansive, filled with joy, creativity, love, clarity, excitement, a feeling of fulfillment, perfect timing and co-creation with other people who are allowing their Higher-Self to flow more freely through them as well. I easily find the type of “work” that feels most correct for me and offers all those things that are what I enjoy and feel good doing. I become an inspiration for others and feel inspired to ever-greater heights myself. Are you aware of the things that hold you back you from expressing the Divine Spiritual Being that you are? What I have found is a primary impediment to allowing my Higher-Self to flow through me is being so busy and hurried with my daily life that I forget to take the time to be still and allow life to naturally unfold around and through me. I can get so very busy trying to make things happen that I actually get in the way of the Universe delivering all that I have asked for. When I do get out of the way, and stop trying so hard, the Universe brings me what I want in ways greater and better than I could have imagined. When I take the time to be quiet with myself, to meditate, to see what the Universe brings to me, rather than working so hard to make something “happen”, then it allows the highest circumstances and events to simply and naturally flow to me. I can then choose what I want to do and whom I want to be with in my journeys. Another way to encourage the Divine flow and your connection with your Higher-Self is spending time in nature. This helps me to remember the natural flow of life and living. Sitting on a rock in the middle of a stream of flowing water clears and nourishes me. Walking in a forest allows my mind to rest and the natural world to balance my energies. Watching the waves come in on a beach allows me to remember so much that I may have forgotten in my hurry, especially when I am away from nature, and surrounded by cars, concrete, steel and city noise. I hope you can make it a priority in your life to have a little more time for meditation, quiet contemplative times and time in nature. You will feel better. You will have a clearer and stronger feeling of connection with your Higher-Self. Your life will naturally unfold with much more grace and ease. You will know what is the best choice for you among many options. Life will be sweet and once unseen openings will be available for you that would have been missed if you were in a hurry, living a busy overworked life In Light, Love & Service, Adama ************************************************************************* May 2010 “Monthly Thoughts” I love Spring, its warmth and green growing things after all the contrast of the cold and gray of Winter. Without contrast everything would be the same and after some time it becomes boring and tends to put me to sleep. Even very beautiful things repeated without any change or contrast become monotone and less and less pleasing. A single tone becomes tiresome hearing it repeatedly without another tone in-between and after a long enough time of hearing it, our ears can actually ignore it as if it was not there. If everything were the same all the time we would soon become dull and sleep through our daily lives. It would be like eating the same food all the time without any variance. After many days of the same meal we would long for something different, something to spice it up, something different to eat. I would propose the somewhat radical idea that all the contrast in our lives gives us the richness, the beauty that we so love, crave and enjoy. The radical part being, we invite the contrast into our lives to give us the opportunity to experience change, to allow us to choose what we really want and to wake us up. From an awake and consciously choosing place we then have the opportunity to invite more of what we really want into our lives. Imagine if you were invited to a large restaurant that had many chefs all cooking wonderful, different foods and they offered a giant table with everything they cooked for you to sample. You would have the opportunity to sample, to try many different dishes, unique foods and different tastes of all kinds. Given the opportunity to choose whatever foods pleased you, I doubt that you would choose the foods that were unpleasant to you. Without the contrast of the other more pleasing foods though, you would not have the opportunity to refine and then choose the things you liked the very best. The more choices you have the more opportunity you have to find out what it is that you like the most. I am using this food analogy to possibly help you to understand better what I am going to say next. I propose that there is a greater part of us actively working behind our usual consciousness that invites into our lives contrast of all kinds so that we then can more consciously choose what fits best for us in any given moment. When something in our daily life is offered to us it is the contrast that we have experienced that helps us decide if we wish to embrace this new thing or not. Sometimes the only way we can determine if this new thing is something we wish to keep in our life is by trying it and seeing how it feels and works in our lives. When we try something new it often greatly enhances our lives and sometimes it may offer us the opportunity to simply experience a contrast that will enhance our ability to choose wisely in the future. Our willingness to experience new things gives us more depth and understanding of ourselves. Our world is filled with contrasts and it is our opportunity to choose amongst all the various choices what fits best for us at any given time. Through our choices in what we focus on and put our energy into we then get more and more of that particular focus and energy into our life. I suggest that you focus on those things pleasing to you and that bring you more joy, love, pleasure and happiness. It seems rather odd to me that if I went to that restaurant I mentioned above and given all the many choices available, that I would focus on and choose anything that was unpleasant and tasted bad to me. So, if the whole world was your restaurant and you could choose among the different offerings what would you choose to focus on and bring into your life? When you catch yourself focusing on and ingesting things that are unpleasant to you I would advise you to make other choices and put your attention and energies into more pleasing things! I invite you to take 10 minutes a day for the next 7 days, maybe in a simple meditation or before you go to sleep at night, to become aware of and begin celebrating all those things in your life that have brought you greater discernment (all that contrast). By celebrating rather than vilifying the contrast you have experienced in your life you will be offering an energy that is positive and invites more of the same positive energy to connect with you. Tell the “story” of how those things that have been your greatest challenges in this life has given you the greatest gifts. You have been given the gift of discernment and the knowing of what it is you really want. Offering a blessing to those people, events and situations that have been most challenging for you will naturally invite the Universe to bring more of what it is that fits best for you now and is in your highest and best alignment. In Light, Love & Service, Adama ************************************************************************ April 2010 “Monthly Thoughts” As usual I have been thinking about how we construct our “worlds”, how and why things become physically manifest. How and why all the various things that make up our daily experiences come together and why one possible thing physically manifests and not another. Then when we interact with the things that show up we continue an ongoing combination of connections and experiences. Things that make up our life and experience such as our health, the jobs we find ourselves doing, the people in our life, all the millions of little things and combinations that come together in all the ways that they do as we move about in our day. A scientist may look through the lens of a microscope to discover the worlds of things hidden from our eyes by their smallness. Worlds of incredible diversity can be observed through the magnification of the microscope and creatures, complex and amazing to watch and study. Those worlds and things are usually hidden from our view but they are there having a life of their own usually unobserved by us. How we create our reality, our world that we live in, is similar in a way to using a microscope. Our manifesting is usually unobserved without the proper lens to see it and how it functions. The lens that we can use to “see” and choose the creations that we will physically manifest is our FEELINGS. Our feelings allow us to see what we will be attracting and creating; what we will be drawing to us that then will be physically manifested into our lives. Our Universe was designed to allow us to create the kind of life we desire. The Universe has no judgment of “right” and “wrong”. It just gives to us circumstances and events that are in alignment with the vibration that we are holding in any present moment. Simply stated, the universe lets us create and manifest our personal world through the vibration we are predominately in. What we focus on through our feelings and emotions translates into a vibration that attracts into our lives things, events and circumstances that will physically manifest. Through our feelings, our emotions we send out vibrations and the Universe then gives to us those things that are of a similar vibration. When I am allowing myself to stay in a state of anger, fear or depression, this vibration is what I am predominately radiating. So our kind and loving Universe responds to this by arranging events and circumstances that are in alignment with this vibration. I will encounter angry people, connect with fearful circumstances and find even more things to be depressed about. All this confirms that the world is just the kind of a place that my vibrations are making “real” for me. When I allow myself to stay in feelings of appreciation, joy and love then this is the vibration that I am predominately radiating out to the Universe. Our kind and loving Universe responds to this by arranging events and circumstances that are in alignment with this vibration. I will encounter things to be appreciative about, find joyful things happening in my life and loving people and events will begin to manifest in my world. All this confirms to me that the world is just the kind of a place that my vibrations are making “real” for me. So, what is very crucial and important to understand is that you have control of what you will find physically manifesting into your personal world, the events in your daily life. Through your attention on how you are feeling at any given moment in time you have the guidance of knowing what you will be attracting to yourself in the future. If you do not like what is currently manifesting in your personal world, pay more attention to your feelings and emotions. Allow your focus to be on what feels better to you in any given moment and allow that to shift and move into a better and higher FEELING place within yourself. You have many ways available to you of shifting yourself into a higher vibrating place. The higher you vibration you are holding, the higher probability that things and events will manifest into your world that are pleasing to you. Sometimes it is a simple as resting more and allowing yourself to see and feel all the beauty and wonder that there is around you. A simple daily meditation practice that you enjoy and feels good to you will help shift your vibration into a higher place. Sometimes having the short term assistance of someone who offers energetic alignment work will give you a boost into a higher vibration that you can then maintain on your own without any other outside help. I hope my thoughts on how we create our personal world has been helpful and at the very least stimulation for you. I wish you marvelous and wonderful creating in you personal worlds! In Light, Love & Service, Adama ************************************************************************ March 2010 “Monthly Thoughts” I am recently back from Japan and moving back into my life here! It is always an honor to be able to travel and share the Workshops and Individual Sessions that I can offer to those who find them of value. Each time I go to Japan it is a deepening of my love for Japan, the people who live there, as well as a continuing unfolding of my own personal skills and abilities at all levels. The workshops were beautiful, powerful, intense and fun. Students came from all over Japan to participate and learn. Some were professional “healers” and there were others who had never done any type of work like this before. Every student went away with great new skills; improved abilities and sessions to share with loved ones or offer to clients. Individual sessions were amazing, loving, intense, powerful, beautiful and surprisingly gentle. I believe each person received more than they expected and were very pleased with their experience. I am always in awe and humbled by the marvelous co-creation that takes place in the Workshops and Individual Sessions. I hope you can talk to someone who participated and hear what he or she has to say about his or her own experience. As wonderful an experience as this trip was, I have exhausted myself from all the experiences of this trip and am taking time to nurture and revitalize myself. There are always more people asking for private sessions than can be accommodated and I find that I overextend myself by adding private Sessions during times scheduled to rest. I am also so honored that so many people desire to receive the hands on energy that is being offered. It is always such an honor to share possibly life-changing work with those who are drawn to it and are guided by their Higher-Self to receive it. There is a rather personal thing I would like to share. The relationship between Khakira and I has changed and shifted once more. We are no longer married. We enjoy working together and are at our best offering workshops or doing individual sessions. We love and care about each other greatly and are pleased to be able to continue offering the work we do together to those desiring it. Spring has arrived here in Ashland Oregon where I live and it is delightful. Flowers and the scent of honey are in the air from all the blossoms on the trees. It is a time of renewal and rebirth in many ways. I will be offering a new long distance Session that I had talked about in past “Monthly Thoughts” and look forward to sharing this with you soon. Wishing you beautiful openings and unfolding into more and more of who you truly are! In Light, Love & Service, Adama ************************************************************************ February 2010 “Monthly Thoughts” As I prepare for the journey to Japan on February 14th I have been reflecting on the Workshops that Khakira and I will teach. What is most important to me is that what is taught in the Workshops can be received by those who are attending in a way that serves them in the highest way possible and that they then can offer what they have experienced to others if they choose. I would like each person to have an extraordinary experience and then be able to share this with others. Sometimes extraordinary experiences are very powerful and you feel like you are in a whirlwind of movement, shift and change. You know something very big and profound is happening. Very often they are subtle, like a fine and exquisite meal or a piece of music or work of art that is hauntingly beautiful and stays with you the rest of your life, adding something indescribable yet profound to your life experience. After this experience you are more than you once were and maybe even more of who you really are. You may only discover this through time and looking back on changes, shifts and movements in your life. Some teachers are very gifted at providing written and verbal descriptions and frameworks for their teachings. This type of teaching often appeals to technically and scholastically oriented people. These words, descriptions’ and frameworks serve to give our “mental body” a handle that it understands and can feel safe and secure with so that meaning; sense and value can be given to the teachings. This can be valuable. Unfortunately it is often substituted for the “real thing,” which is the “fruit” and the essence of the teaching. Sometimes clever students can find their way from this to the real “thing”. What I have found is that the description of a “thing” is not the actual thing itself. You can have a description of an apple, a picture of an apple, a history of how an apple grows from a seed to a tree, sprouting leaves, then flowers and the fruit growing and ripening on the tree and the fruit finally harvested and ready to eat. You can have a complete description of everything necessary to nurture and grow an apple tree including soil, fertilizers, watering, proper sunlight and warmth, everything necessary to bring the apple to your hand. All the words, all the descriptions’ so precious to our mental body, can never convey all that is experienced when you hold the apple in your hand and take your first bite of this fruit you have never tasted before. At this point you really “know” the taste and feel of the apple. It is no longer an idea, but an actual “felt sense,” a knowing from experience that is forever yours. Our Workshops are more experiential and hands-on learning rather than intellectual explorations and mapping expeditions. I strongly believe you learn by doing and experiencing rather than hearing, being told or reading about something. Our gift is the ability to transmit the codes, the keys, and the pathways of accessing the ability to actually do what is taught in the Workshop. Without this all the explanations in the world will only give you a mental understanding and no real ability to access the power to really taste, feel and transmit to another the real life, the aliveness, the richness and fullness the workshop is all about. What you will get in our Workshops is the real thing! You will get the ability to do what the Workshop is about with a minimal of mental body gymnastics and need for mental understanding. This works especially well when we are teaching to people whose native language is not English. You can come to one of our workshops and expect to learn by doing and receiving the keys to open the pathways within yourself that allow you to proficiently and with minimal practicing, offer some extremely powerful and potentially life changing energy work. I invite you to come and taste the fruit and share it with others. In Light Love & Service Adama ************************************************************************ January 2010 “Monthly Thoughts” This New Year is again an opportunity to let go of what no longer works for you and move into the future you most desire. So much of what holds us back and limits our forward movement is the repetition of old patterns and behaviors that do not serve us. What we mostly do is re-create our past, wanted and unwanted, on daily basis. We bring our past into the present. Then by our focus on what is happening right “now” (our present experience) we continue to re-create the same thing over and over. This is great if we like where we are at and what is happening in our lives! This is not so great if we would rather have something different. There are many ways to assist ourselves in our movements forward into the futures we most desire. Becoming more and more in alignment with our Higher-Self is primary. This means your Higher-Self and not my Higher-Self! Only you can know what is right and true for you. What is correct and perfect for me may be very wrong and even detrimental to your graceful movement forward in many ways. We are each on a very personal journey and only our Higher-Self knows the most expedient and correct path at any given point in time for each one of us. When we are in alignment with our Higher-Self we then naturally become in alignment with others who are similarly aligned and come together in co-creative ways that expand and enhance all our life experiences. Would you like something different to come into your life in this New Year? One simple way is to totally accept where you are presently at and begin to focus on “feeling” what it is that you would like to currently have manifesting for you as if it was already here and present, right now. For example if you would like more money, more financial abundance, begin to think of what it might feel like to have more money than you currently have. How would you feel right now with more income, more money to spend on anything you want? What would it feel like to be able to go out and buy an expensive gift for someone you loved? How about being able to buy something that you always wanted or dreamed of having? As long as this little mental exploration “feels” good it will accelerate your physical manifestation of what you desire. If thinking these things “feels” not so good then this is an indication of resistance that is keeping what you want from coming as quickly as it could. In general, your “feeling” sense lets you know what you have resistance to or what you are in alignment with. Simply stated “good” feelings show little resistance and “bad” feelings indicate resistance. The more you orientate towards those things that feel good or even a little better to you the more in alignment you become with the higher guidance of your Higher-Self. One of the primary ways your Higher-Self speaks to you is through your feelings. If you wish to be in alignment with those things you want, you must first “feel” those things as if it or they were already physically present in your life no matter what is currently physically present and “real” in the moment. You have the power to influence and change your future experience through your alignment with your Higher-Self. Making your personal alignment with your Higher-Self your first and highest priority ensures that your life will evolve gracefully and continuously in a way that is most fulfilling, creative, joyful, fun, exciting, loving and expansive. Your personal alignment uplifts much more than yourself and those you care about and love, it expands and uplifts the world as well. I am personally excited, fulfilled and delighted to be able to assist people in moving into greater alignment with their Higher-Self. Through these words you may be reading, individual sessions and various workshops my overall goal is assisting each individual into becoming more and more in alignment with their own Higher-Self. I believe and know this is how the world changes into a better place for us all. It is by our own unique and individual alignment with those higher and wiser aspects of ourselves, that are ever present and just waiting for our cooperation in aligning and harmonizing with, that we evolve personally and as a collective whole. Wishing you an Amazing and Wonderful New Year! In Light, Love & Service, Adama ************************************************************************* December 2009 “Monthly Thoughts” I am very excited about a number of things to be sharing with you this month! First Khakira and I have been invited to return to Japan and offer Workshops and Individual Sessions starting in February of next year. We are really looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting old friends that we have never met before and sharing some very new and exciting things with you. We have also been developing some new Workshops and will offer a very new and unique Individual Session for next year as well. The new energies that have been pouring into the Earth have been challenging for many and are the harbinger of more to come. They are helping us to open to more energy and changes on the way. Our physical energy systems are being rebuilt to accommodate the newer and more potent energies. Our very bodies are being rebuilt as we do our best to live in them and function in this changing and upwardly evolving world. It is a very exciting time we have chosen to live and participate in! Something that has been waiting for this “time,” for the “correct timing,” both planetary as well as for our individual and collective evolvement to take place are a very new energy system contained within our physical bodies. This new series of Pathways has recently opened and become available for us to utilize. We are calling them the Divinity Pathways as their sole function is to allow more and more of our true divinity our Higher-Self to be ever more fully grounded into our physical body like it never has been before. The Divinity Pathways are now available for us to access as they merge, unite and intertwine with the physical body. The Divinity Pathway map and how to assist them in their embodiment was directly downloaded to Khakira while she was in deep trance states. While the Divinity Pathways may at times coincide with other energy work systems (Axiatonal Alignment, Chakra Systems, Acupuncture Meridians and others) any similarities are purely coincidental. These Pathways are unique and are the conduit for the gifts available from our Higher-Self to be much more easily brought into physical reality now that we are ready to receive and embody them. These pathways are all about embodying more of your Divinity. They enable us to re-connect to the highest aspects of the non-physical parts of us and to bring more of that into our physicality. They let us re-member and re-call our divine abilities, like being able to embody more love and compassion, telepathic communication, clairvoyance, cellular regeneration, accessing information of all kinds, etc. As these pathways open further, more of Spirit will be allowed to flow through us, and we then become more conscious and awake. They assist us in reclaiming who we truly are and empower us to show more of that in our daily lives. This is extremely exciting to Khakira and I and we feel so very pleased and honored to be able to share this with you. The process of how to infuse the Pathways is not complicated compared to so many other systems and modalities and feels wonderful for all involved. The Pathways can be accessed by lightly touching and holding particular parts of the body in an orderly procedure and then “infused” to increase and accelerate their functioning. There are over 70 of these pathways and working as a team, we can infuse them in approximately 4 hours. Here is a little meditational exercise that you can do to become acquainted with the Divinity Pathways. 1. Allow yourself to get into a calm meditative state. 2. Become aware of the space within your physical self and all around yourself. 3. With each breath in breathe in beautiful golden light and allow it to fill and radiate all around you as if you are filling up a balloon that is shaped like you. 4. Breathe in golden light for several minutes, allowing yourself to be filled and overflowing with it. 5. Imagine that your Lightbody is glowing and filled with light and points of spinning energy. It looks like a fantastic star chart, all illuminated, alive, spinning, moving and radiating more colors than you can imagine throughout the inside and outside of the physical body. 6. Imagine and intend that the particular pathways that are the Divinity Pathways are beginning to illuminate and glow brighter and brighter. Do not worry about seeing them exactly or even at all. Your intention and desire is what is most important right now. 7. With each breath of golden light, imagine the divinity Pathways are being infused, that they are brightening, becoming clearer and more physically manifested. 8. Continue to breathe in golden light and allow through your intent, visualization and desire that the Divinity Pathways become stronger and brighter with each breath. 9. Allow the peace, joy, love and feelings of connection with your Higher-Self to fill you as long as you wish and have time for. Please enjoy this little meditation anytime you can make the time and feel like recharging yourself with more of all the highest qualities and aspects of yourself. This is a delightful meditation to do before falling asleep or before getting up to start your day. Wishing you overflowing love, joy and graceful expansion in your life! Adama ********************************************************************* November 2009 “Monthly Thoughts” Lately, I have been thinking about how the remote (long distance) sessions I do work and how we influence and affect each other by all the things that we do and think. I have been contemplating ideas of how I could teach other people to do effective and powerful remote sessions and what are the key ingredients that must be mastered for the greatest success in this process. From these ponderings, along with “downloads” of information I often get in meditation and while doing remote sessions a possible new workshop and an individual session is currently being developed and tested. While doing sessions I often receive what can best be described as “downloads” of information. I also receive such “downloads” during my regular meditations. This information comes in words, pictures, feelings and sometimes simply a clear knowing of what was not known before. Usually this happens very fast and a great deal of information is compressed into a single moment in time. Like if you took a 90 minute movie and compressed it into 30 seconds. And then experienced the whole 90 minute movie in only 30 seconds or less (often I experience it in less time, like in a few seconds). It is a very high energy transmission channeled through my Higher-Self. When received while doing a session, this “download” often relates directly to the session I am doing and expands on its usual parameters. Sometimes it is about something completely different and new. What allows this “download” is a very spiritually clear and high meditational place where I come into alignment with my Higher-Self and other very high beings of Light and can then access higher knowing and knowledge. I would like to share some powerful tools that you can work with right now. These simple steps will help you to remove some of the things that may be negatively affecting your relationships. Hopefully you can be clearer with your thoughts and energy and more easily achieve the types of relationships you really want with various people in your life. I will do my best to put my thoughts into words that will make sense to you and hopefully give you some practical applications to use in your life. I will start as solid and concrete as possible before moving into the more abstract. Not so very long ago, in the age before the internet, we all had to physically write and send letters that needed to be physically carried through space and time to hopefully be delivered to its intended receiver, often after several days or more of travel. Now many of us use a computer of some sort to send email that gets delivered almost immediately carried over unseen electronic ways. Almost all of us use a telephone to communicate with people not right in front of us. We share our thoughts, ask for assistance and give directions, all from a distance connected by an instrument in our hands (telephone) and a signal is sent over wires and now wirelessly to it’s intended receiver. We talk to them sharing our thoughts, emotions and ideas as if they were right in front of us. When we do not connect with the person we are calling there is almost always an answering machine or system in place so we can leave a message for them. We usually leave a message for them and in time they usually respond to our message that we left. Here comes the more esoteric part of this energy connection. When we think of someone we are energetically connecting to that person and sending a message to him or her, like calling on the telephone. A number of factors depend on how this message is received by the person you were thinking about. Right now what is important is that you are open to the idea that your thoughts have power and carry energy. The more we think certain thoughts the more powerful the energy that is being thought can become. Using the telephone and answering machine analogy, your thoughts can be held in an energetic “answering machine” that you carry around with you all the time. This “psychic answering machine” contains all the thoughts you have thought about other people in your life. Repetitive thoughts can increase in power and potency. Depending on the sensitivity of the person you are thinking about (and other factors) they pick up on the feelings, pictures and overall energy of what you have sent out towards them. Is this idea new to you or have you known or suspected this for a long time? So, people you have been thinking about can and do receive the energetics (feelings, pictures and overall energy) of your non-physical communication with them! They also can react to you in the physical world from the messages you have been thinking about them and that are stored in this non-physical answering machine. You carry around this “psychic answering machine” and everyone else has their own one. It is usually more effective in delivering its messages when you are in close proximity with the person that you have been sending these psychic messages to (the person or people you “think” about). They then often react to you from this “psychic answering machine” as much as from what you are communicating to them in the moment of your present interaction, and often more from what is contained in what I am calling the “psychic answering machine”! The implications of this are huge in understanding why people react to us they way that they do. You may wish to consider your thoughts more closely and what you are sending into your personal “psychic answering machine” that delivers all the messages it has saved to the people in your life on a continuous basis. Loving, kind, clear, supportive, trusting, non-judgmental, empowering thoughts “feel” wonderful when they are received and there is a natural reaction to them and the sender. Thoughts of a less positive nature usually do not “feel” so good when received and there is a natural reaction to them and the sender. People you have known for a long time (like your family) and thought about for a long time can have a really large and mixed amount of energy in the “psychic answering machine” you carry around about them. You may be wise in considering erasing the old and out of date things that are less positive and that are in your “psychic answering machine”. Here is a simple way to erase those things that you would rather have deleted from your “psychic answering machine”. This technique will be more effective for some people than for others. 1. Bring yourself into a calm meditative space and ask for help with this process from the highest non-physical beings you may wish to assist you. 2. Imagine that you have a “psychic answering machine” that looks very physical and has a “play” and “erase negatives” button on it. 3. Imagine an individual in your life that you would like to review what is contained about them in your “psychic answering machine”. 4. Press the play button and notice all the things that come to you that are contained in the “psychic answering machine” about this person. 5. After you feel complete with what you have received, imagine or intend to press the “erase negatives” button. All those things that carry a lower vibration and are less than neutral or positive will be erased and cleared from the “psychic answering machine”. 6. You may wish to take some time and put in more loving, kind, clear, supportive, trusting, non-judgmental, empowering thoughts, energy and pictures into the “psychic answering machine” you hold about this person. 7. When you are complete bring yourself fully present in your meditation space and give thanks to any help you may have received with this technique and know you have done something very good and positive for another and yourself. You may wish to do this technique only once or multiple times with the same person. If you choose to do it again with the same person you should find that there are none, almost none or a great deal less negatives contained in any playback from your “psychic answering machine” about that individual. There are other ways to work with the psychic energy and the pictures we hold and carry around with us about others in our lives. What I have given is a simple way to start your clearing process. As I said at the beginning of the month’s “Thoughts” I am also developing a session to work with clearing this “psychic answering machine” for those who may wish some further assistance from me regarding such a clearing. In Light, Love & Service, Adama ********************************************* October 2009 “Monthly Thoughts” Your “past” consists of all that was, what is not happening right “now”. In fact everything in our thoughts has passed; our memory is only of the past. Your past, all you have lived, dreamed, thought, felt and experienced translates into vibration. This vibration is not a single “tone” but could be thought of as having many different tones or notes, maybe even a symphony of various sounds. If your past were a painting, or a series of paintings, it would consist of various colors, shapes and themes. Usually the primary colors of your life’s “paintings” were given to you from your childhood by your parents and the society and culture you grew up in. Often these primary colors that we have taken on from childhood become the palate that we then form our adult “paintings” and the “tapestry” of our lives and daily experiences. This palate of colors we “find” ourselves painting from can be wonderfully complete or it could be missing shades, hues, vibrancy, variation and even some primary colors. We can see this in what is currently manifesting in our lives at the present moment. Do you like the painting of your life as it is manifesting today? Does it show you are painting the story of your life with a full and varied palate of colors? Are your paintings filled with those things that you value and find pleasing? Would you like more color? Maybe you’d like a more adventurous exploration of what is possible if you added some more colors or maybe different shades? When we play with contrast in our “paintings” it can help bring us into greater awareness of what may be more desired. When we find our creations are darker than we like it is natural to add more colors of a lighter shade and hue. In fact the more contrast we have the more clearly we know what would be more pleasing to us. So, contrast is good as it brings clarity and gives us the vision of how to paint our future in such a way that brings us more of what we truly want and desire in our lives! This is your creation so you can keep manifesting what you are seeing or you can change it. You can add colors and shades by becoming aware of the palate you are painting from. You can even erase or paint over certain areas by not giving so much attention and emotional energy to certain things that are less pleasing to you. One strategy is to become aware of our beliefs, especially any that may be less conscious and limiting our palate. Beliefs are energy, a vibration that attracts what they are about. If I believe the world is a hard and difficult place to live in, then I naturally attract experiences and situations that will justify and support “my” belief! Here is an exercise that may be interesting, fun and informative for you. Taking some time and actually putting this exercise on paper and making it visual and colorful will help to really see a visual representation (a better picture) of why and how you are currently manifesting what you are. You may wish to have some different colored pencils or a box of colored crayons, colored markers or colored highlighters to help with this exploration. 1. Write down as many beliefs that you can think of on a piece of paper (like white printer paper). For example you may have a beliefs like: “I have to work hard to get enough money to live comfortably.” “I have to keep everybody happy in my life or bad things will happen to me.” “If I stand out or are different bad things will happen to me.” “It is not safe to tell or show my true feelings.” Those “beliefs” all have a certain tone or color. I am sure you can already see where we are going. You will probably have many beliefs that are of a different tone like: “Things always work out in ways better than I could have imagined.” “My life is getting better and better.” “People like and respect me.” “Life is fun and exciting.” Those “beliefs” all have a certain tone or color different than the first group. 2. Give each belief you write down a color or a shade of color reflecting if they are more uplifting (they feel “good”) or not so uplifting (they feel neutral, draining or give a sinking feeling). Uplifting beliefs get bright and light colors and the more neutral or less uplifting beliefs get darker and less bright colors. Color the whole sentence (the belief) with the color you choose that best reflect its “color” and “tone”. The more beliefs you write down and give colors that reflect possibly how bright or dark they may be, the more you can see what kind of palate your have to paint your life with and what you are naturally attracting more of into your life. Remember you automatically attract and physically manifest as your “reality” from the beliefs you carry with you and automatically project outward. So, what kind of an artist’s palate do you have to work with? Do you like your palate? Want to add more colors? Want to let go of some? It’s all your creation and the more conscious you become the more you can consciously create your life “paintings” into works of art that really please you and brings you continual joy, love and fulfillments! You can work with your beliefs by becoming conscious of them and then choosing to give them energy or not. What you focus on and put emotional intensity into creates a resonance that draws more of the same to you. You physically create from your focus! I know what beliefs and colors I wish to paint with. How about you? Wishing You Much Love and Consciously Colorful Manifesting! Adama ************************************************************************* September 2009 “Monthly Thoughts” I have been assisting and teaching during August in various Hakomi Psychotherapy Workshops. I am very honored to be able to work with and assist the founder of the Hakomi method of assisted self-discovery, Doctor Ron Kurtz, during the Training’s and Workshops. This method is a simple and powerful way to assist another person to discover for themselves what they may be unconscious of that is causing them unnecessary suffering in their life. When performed correctly as it is currently being taught by Dr Kurtz, it is very gentle, non-violent and very effective. I am also seeing again and again how people’s thoughts create the reality that they then live in. The thoughts people think bring more and more of the same or similar type of experiences, people and events into their lives making up their current life experience. One night a few days ago, I went through a process that I would like to share with you. I think it may help you to almost immediately shift your energy and the level of joy in your life to a higher level. It will also most likely allow you to be more uplifting to everyone you encounter in your life. You may even find people want to spend more time around and with you than ever before! I have been having some challenging emotional times and found myself awake one night and thinking about many things. Since I could not sleep and really wanted to be rested for the new day I began to study my feelings about what I was thinking. I noticed some thoughts were fairly neutral, some uplifting and felt good and others were depressing and sad. So what I did was every time I caught myself thinking a thought that was neutral or lower “feeling” I immediately began to put it in the most positive framework possible. An example was, I caught myself thinking, “I am sitting so much in class that my body is often hurting during the day and sitting so long in class is bad for me. I can not wait until this workshop is over!” This thought was depressing and felt like a downward spiraling of energy to me. I could even see myself spiraling downward in bed. So, I immediately said to myself, “I can take more breaks and stretch during the day and not sit so much and I really like this class and the people who are in it.” This immediately felt better to me and I felt my energy spiraling upward. I had another thought like, “I do not have enough time to meditate in the morning when I am teaching workshops because I have to get moving earlier to get to class on time.” This thought was also depressing and felt like a downward spiraling of energy to me. So, I immediately said to myself, “ You can meditate some right now and will be perfectly fine in the morning and even have more energy than usual.” This also immediately felt better to me and I felt my energy spiraling upward. So, every time I caught a thought that was neutral or lower “feeling” I immediately re-worded it to myself in a way that felt better and brought my energy spiraling upwards rather being flat or going down. I spent what seemed like the whole night doing this process with every thought I became conscious of. And I really had a lot of thoughts about many many different things! It felt to me like I did not sleep more than a few hours that night. In the morning I got out of bed feeling better than I had felt in weeks and with energy to spare. What this tells me is that my thoughts have a great deal to do about my energy level and how “good” I feel. It also showed me I can actively work with my thoughts in a way that brings me greater energy, enthusiasm and joy in my life. It really was not that hard and the results were simply great! I am using this with myself daily as I become conscious of my thoughts and as I am talking to myself or to others. Being conscious of my “feelings” about what I am thinking or saying and actively changing or choosing to say things in a way that feels more uplifting and better to me is improving my energy level and I am feeling much better overall. I hope you will find this useful and even fun to explore how it might improve your life as well! In Light, Love & Service, Adama ************************************************************************* August 2009 “Monthly Thoughts” You will find some current thoughts on Axiatonal Alignment below and if this does not interest you please skip to the part of this months “Thoughts” that offer you an energetic technique to help and assist others you may encounter along your way. We have had some excellent feedback from the publication of our Axiatonal Alignment Level 1 & 2 Workbook and DVD. People who have purchased the book have found that they can understand what has been written and in conjunction with the DVD can perform the techniques with good results. Khakira and I are delighted with this and it was our desire to share this information and to help those who may not be able to attend one of our Workshops to understand and competently perform an Axiatonal Alignment session. There is a great deal that goes into performing an Axiatonal Alignment and technical expertise is just one of the elements involved. Competently Teaching Axiatonal Alignment to a group of students involves much much more than just understanding the techniques involved and being competent in performing an individual session. The techniques, procedure and methodology of the Axiatonal Level 2 is completely unique to Khakira and I. Khakira directly channeled the Axiatonal Level 2 techniques, procedure and methodology and no one is better qualified to teach this material than Khakira and I. At this point in time we have not Certified or approved of anyone else to teach Axiatonal Alignment Level 1 & 2 as we have been teaching it. Through the years we have been coming to Japan to teach Workshops and do private Sessions we have worked particularly close with four students who have shown outstanding dedication and skill in understanding and performing the Axiatonal Alignment techniques and methodology as we have envisioned and taught this body of knowledge. These four students of ours have taken special training with us on Axiatonal Alignment and have been supervised by us more than anyone else in Japan at this point in time. Of the four students Yasuto Suzuki has trained with us the most and assisted us for the last two years while we offered Axiatonal Alignment level 1 & 2 Workshops in Japan. Our Certified Axiatonal Alignment Assistants are, Yasuto Suzuki, Masako Suzuki, Ayako Yamasaki and Yoshie Sugiura. Khakira and I feel that these four people are our most highly trained Axiatonal Alignment practitioners and capable and competent to tutor 1 to 4 students at a time who have purchased our Axiatonal Alignment Level 1 & 2 Workbook and DVD and desire to ask questions or receive some specific advice on how to correctly perform the Axiatonal Alignments. We feel that their sharing of their skill and expertise is valuable and worth the fee they may charge for their tutoring services. We wish to be very clear that although no one is authorized or certified by Khakira and I to teach Axiatonal Alignment as we teach it at this point in time. The four Assistants mentioned above are the only people we would recommend that anyone who has purchased the Workbook and DVD and is seeking deeper understanding and skill in performing Axiatonal Alignment Level 1 & 2 techniques should consider being tutored by. Anyone else offering to teach or tutor in Axiatonal Alignment Level 1 & 2 does not have the experience of our repeated coaching and training, technical expertise, the skills required or our permission and authorization to assist you in such a way. If anyone other than one of our Assistants is charging a fee for any teaching of Axiatonal Alignment Level 1 & 2 please use your discernment to make sure this is the best use of your time and finances. We always advise our students to use the greatest of discernment in choosing a teacher, trainer or facilitator of any kind, because even people with the highest and best intentions with high values and integrity may not be the best choice available for you. Below is the energetic technique I mentioned at the start of this August 2009 “Monthly Thoughts” to help and assist others you may encounter along your way. I think you will like it and enjoy practicing it often! Here is a simple and fun technique that you can use to assist people you may encounter that looks like they could use some assistance and help. You can use this on anyone as it allows him or her to use the offered energy in any way that will be most helpful. You are simply offering assistance that may be like giving a drink of water to a person who is badly in need of water, nourishment and refreshment. I often use this technique as I am walking down the street and see people who are obviously hurting and in pain. Here is how to do it: 1. When you are ready and have found a person you wish to assist. Imagine you have a small ball of brilliant white light in your hand. The ball of light is about the size of a golf ball or a tennis ball. It is important that you imagine it or see it as pure white light, without any color at all. 2. Begin to toss the ball of white light up and down in your hand just like you might a real physical ball. You only need to do this a couple of times. 3. In your mind, toss this white ball of light up in the air so that you see or imagine and visualize it arching up above the top of the persons head you are assisting and dropping down on the top of their head. Just like if you had an actual ball and you wanted to gently plop it down on top of a friend’s head. You may “see” this ball of white light disappear just above the top of their head is it is absorbed by them. Sometimes the ball of white light gets bigger after you toss it up in the air above the person’s head and sometimes it gets smaller. Once you toss the ball of white light to above the top of the other persons head you part in this gifting is done. They will use the ball of light in whatever way is best for them and only they know what is most correct. They may never consciously know what had just happened and this is fine. You have given a very loving gift of energy and can trust that the other person’s Higher-Self will know exactly how to use this gift in a way that is perfect for the person receiving it. You have also helped your own abilities to visualize and to offer love unconditionally. You have affirmed that each person has their own journey in this life here on Earth and trusted that your gift will be used exactly in the best way possible for them at the moment that they received it. You will have the satisfaction of knowing you have given something and are not concerned with being thanked or paid for your thoughtfulness and kindness. You can enjoy the “good” feeling of having done something to help another person that may be struggling and in pain. You will also be building and strengthening your own psychic skills by using this technique often. Wishing You Much Love & light! Adama ************************************************************************* July 2009 “Monthly Thoughts” Beliefs are thoughts that are repeated enough that they often become unconscious. You don’t have to think about them, they save you your limited amount of consciousness in the present moment to attend to the details of whatever is currently right in front of you. Beliefs are like computer programs that run in the background all the time, you don’t have to think about them, they just do their jobs allowing you to focus your limited attention on whatever is going on that is right in front of you in the moment. Our attention is very limited; what we can focus on and hold in our consciousness at any one time is very limited, so beliefs and our mental constructs of the world and how it works and how we have evolved to function within it can be very helpful. If you had to consciously “think” about everything and all the possible results of your actions you would move very slowly about in the world and be subject to numerous accidents in our fast moving, life and world. Even walking around in the city and getting to where you wanted to go without mishap would be quite an accomplishment as you constantly have to make unconscious decisions to avoid other people walking, automobiles, cross streets, avoid construction activities on sidewalks and the many circumstances that we often do not really pay attention to as we have learned to just automatically go about our day and tasks. Beliefs can be very helpful and can also be the causative factor in much unnecessary suffering. Our beliefs help to create how we experience the world around us. From our beliefs, of all the possibilities available, the Universe works to deliver those beliefs in all that we encounter in the world. What we find physically manifesting for us is a reflection of those beliefs that are conscious and unconscious. I would like to give you an example from my life that “happened” (I put “happened” in quotes as it implies I had no connection or influence in what occurred to me) as I was traveling home from a Hakomi Workshop in June. I was traveling back to Ashland from Vancouver British Columbia Canada on a small airplane early in the morning and had just sat down. Being one of the first people on the plane I had the opportunity to observe the other passengers as they came in to be seated. A group of four young men came in and as they passed me I felt assaulted by their aftershave and the cologne they were wearing. I was very pleased that they continued to their seats towards the back of the plane. I grumbled to myself about insensitive people who are unaware of or just don’t care about how what they do can effect other people around them. This led be down a memory path of similar incidents, people and thoughts about my sensitivities and living in a world that is often oblivious to how chemicals, scents and smells can be aversive to anyone sensitive to such things. Shortly, a man of what appeared to me to be of Middle Eastern ethnicity came in and sat directly in front of me. He might have bathed in cologne, deodorant and aftershave, as the odor was so powerful and strong radiating off from him. I allowed this feeling of being assaulted to continue my downward spiraling of thoughts, feelings and emotions. Airplane travel became aversive and painful, fear for my health, dislike of unconscious people, the advertising industry that promotes chemical scents as positive and good, remembering articles and books that I have read affirming how “bad” such chemicals and scents really are for people, wondering if I would get “sick” from the smells… Somehow I was able to observe and catch myself as I sunk deeper and deeper in negative feelings, thoughts and justifications for my beliefs and sensitivities. I thought if I keep going on this direction of thought, thinking and beliefs I would really have a miserable flight and probably make myself sick before I even got home. So, I quickly determined that I have a core belief that colognes, perfumes, aftershaves, heavily scented soaps and detergents, chemical air-fresheners and all such “unnatural” scents would harm me. I also knew that my intense dislike, strong resistance and fear for my health regarding such scents would draw those exact things to me in greater and greater proportions the more I focused on them, how “bad” they were, how much I disliked them and how they would hurt me. I immediately got as quiet as possible inside myself, ignoring the scents, incoming people and general airplane noises and began to say to myself things of a soothing nature starting with more general and then more specific thoughts like: 1. The flight will only be an hour and I can survive it. 2. After a short while my nose will become numb to the smells. 3. The people wearing the colognes, perfumes, aftershaves and clothes washed in heavily scented cleaners are just unaware and if they really knew what they were doing to themselves and others they would probably make different choices. 4. My body is healthy and strong; it will be able to transmute the chemicals before they really negatively effected me. 5. I will be just fine and can enjoy this flight by focusing on all the things that are going “right” and are pleasant and nice about flying. 6. People are really interesting and we are all in various stages of awakening, I wonder what their world is really like and why they make the choices that they are making. 7. I can enjoy this ride and will be wiser for all the experiences I have gained from being here right now! Well, can you guess what happened as I opened my eyes to see and experience the latest influx of passengers? In came two young women who obviously knew the man sitting in front of me and stopped beside him and one stood next to me as I was seated by the window and began to talk with him. They both wore heavy doses of perfume (different kinds!) and they might have bathed in the perfume seemingly just before boarding the plane they smelled so forcefully! I surrendered at that point and even silently laughed to myself as I observed the situation I had attracted to me. Then the girl standing next to me very nicely said that she thinks she has the window seat that I was sitting in. I thought, great now she will be sitting right next to me with her girlfriend in front and the cologne drenched man next to her. Surrendering again to my manifestation I looked at my seating assignment and saw indeed I had sat in her seat and my window seat was on the next plane I was to take (same type of small airplane and same seating isle). Now the airline steward had been attracted to the girls standing and observed correctly that the seat assignment was under discussion. I had resigned myself to sitting with all the perfume, cologne and now chattering friends around me and was internally at peace with it (I usually prefer a more quiet time so I can sleep of meditate while flying so early in the morning). Here comes the best part now. The Airline Steward asked if there was a problem. We all said no problem, just shifting our seats. The Steward then asked if the three (heavily scented people) were friends and wanted to sit together as there was a seat where they all could sit together towards the back of the plane. They all agreed and moved away from me. So, I now had the seat in front of me empty and the seat next to me empty (quiet and scent free now) and the air quality as good as it can get in a small plane! It was a very pleasant flight and the next as well. I believe I attracted a situation that I really did not desire by my beliefs and focus on what I disliked and the fear (fear is a big attractor) at the base of my beliefs. By immediately doing the inner work necessary to shift my lower vibrations (downward spiraling thoughts and focus) into higher vibrations (upward spiraling thoughts and focus) and not fighting what looked like an even worsening situation (the addition of the two heavily perfumed girls) my current “reality” shifted very quickly and rather unexpectedly into one much more pleasant and enjoyable. In fact my current reality shifted into my highest vision of what I wanted for that flight! It is also important to note that the most probable outcome was for me to be seated next to heavily scented, perfumed and noisy people. I think this would have been exactly what would have happened if I had continued my downward spiraling of thoughts, beliefs and feelings. By realigning myself inwardly first my outer reality changed dramatically, quickly and unexpectedly into something much better than I had really ever expected to happen so fast. I hope you can find use in this example for you own daily lives to shift beliefs and change situations you may find yourself in into a higher vibration that is more pleasing to you. The principals illustrated above will work in your daily life to bring you greater peace, enjoyment and satisfaction if you use them. Simply stated once you bring your own inner vibration higher, your outer reality and manifestations will reflect the new higher level you are radiating out into the world. This can happen remarkably fast and in quite improbable and wonderful ways! In Light, Love & Service, Adama ******************************************************** June 2009 “Monthly Thoughts” I was talking to a friend on the sidewalk in downtown Ashland Oregon and saw a woman grab the hands of her two children and pull them quickly backwards, stopping their movement forward. A snake had come out of some plants along the sidewalk and then feeling all the people turned and went back the way it came. It was especially beautiful as it had just shed its skin and was very shinny and colorful. This was quite unusual to see a snake in downtown Ashland and then for it to be almost 4 feet long! I immediately went over to where it was moving away from the people that it had frightened and determined it was not a very poisonous snake and carefully grabbed behind its head (so if it tried to bite me it would have more difficulty). I was very calm and the snake did not struggle very much for as large and strong as it was. It only tried to bite me once. This was only more as a warning than to really hurt me. There is a wonderful Park that is nearby and I knew it would be much safer at the very end of the Park where few people would be and there is wilderness for it to safely live in. So I started the 1-mile walk to the Parks end where I planned on releasing it in a safe place for everyone. Now here comes the part that I think was even more unusual and interesting then finding such a large snake in Downtown Ashland. I walked carrying this almost 4 foot serpent between my hands held out in front of me as it coiled around my arms and hands and passed almost 50 people along my way to my destination. Only 5 or 6 of the 50 people who saw me, walked close by me and made direct eye contact with me, or said hello noticed the snake! And of those who saw the snake 3 were children and one was a teenager. So, my questioning and wondering is why did not more of all those people who saw me and made eye contact not “see” the serpent? I think the main reason is that they did not “expect” to see a man walking through the park carrying a 4-foot snake. It did not fit in with the “reality” that they were expecting to see and encounter. The children were more open to really “seeing” what was going on around them. The children all reacted with excitement and wonder at seeing the snake and had big smiles. The adults who saw it were more surprised and the teenager came over to talk to me about it and was appreciative that I was taking it to safety. What I have been doing since has been watching myself as I wander around and noticing how open I am to seeing what I do not expect to see. To be in a calm place inside of myself where I can really “see” some of the people I walk by and notice as much as I can about them without being rude or staring at them. I am looking to see if I can notice things that I might not otherwise notice or see. I am allowing myself to look with curiosity and the eyes of a child as much as possible. I walk with the attitude of looking to discover and see those things that may escape a more casual or less focused way of being in the world. I am finding it great fun and very interesting. I would suggest that you might also want to try using this approach when you go out in the world and notice what you may discover and notice that you probably would have missed otherwise. Maybe take a set amount of time (like 30 minutes) to be in this more open and aware state and see how it feels and how it works for you. I think you might be surprised how this can change what may have been a rather dull and “usual” outing into the world into something much more exciting and interesting. This is one way to bring back some of the joy and wonder that can be easily lost as we go about our busy lives and are so inwardly focused or focused in a way that does not let the unexpected be seen and that amazing, unanticipated and unusual things are missed by us. When we do not see or recognize these things that are really right in front of our faces, our world becomes smaller and less interesting and exciting than it really is. I wish you great new adventures and the seeing of unexpected and unusual things that may thrill and delight you in your daily life! Wishing You Much Love and Joy in your life, Adama ************************************************************** May 2009 “Monthly Thoughts” Please remember, you are strong and resilient beyond your wildest dreams. What your body defends against and heals from is incredible. You were designed that way. I just returned from a Hakomi Training in Maui Hawaii and it was held in a very beautiful space (Rinzai Zen Mission) where you could see the ocean and hear the waves washing the beach. It was a very nice gathering of people of all ability levels who wished to learn more about the Hakomi method of Psychotherapy and those wishing to deepen their knowledge from many years of prior training. I am always touched by the beauty of the student’s desire to learn more and their openness to explore those areas that may be causing them unnecessary suffering in their lives. It has been said, "Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional”. Pain is when you are in a car accident and are hurt and injured or when you trip and fall down and hurt yourself. Pain is felt in the moment, like when you are young and are criticized by those you love and told what your are feeling is not “real” or “true” or that your dreams are “unreal” and to forget about them. You immediately feel the pain of their criticism or immediately feel pain at being told to deny your true feelings and to forget about your ideas or dreams. Suffering is when you go through life remembering the pain of long ago and feeling it anew each day. Suffering is living a life unconsciously reacting to the world around you from all the ways you developed to adapt and cope with the pain you felt as a child. You are older and wiser now. You can choose to let go of suffering or keep it alive in each day. There are many pathways, tools and techniques to become more conscious of how we are holding on to suffering and then to let suffering go. One pathway is to continually be aware of your feelings and to orient yourself into feeling a little better, a little more hopeful, a little more joyful a little more loving in each moment and in every choice you make. Choose to think thoughts that help you to feel better and happier. Choose to love and be honoring of yourself first and you will be able to share your love with others freely. Please remember, you are strong and resilient beyond your wildest dreams. What your body defends against and heals from is incredible. You were designed that way. When you find joy, passion, excitement, love and creativity in your daily life and live from your heart you allow your body to be strong and to prosper. When your body is strong and prospering your spiritual life and guidance will be more easily accessed. When you are in a state of being loving your life flows and works beautifully and gracefully. Khalil Gibran in his famous, articulate and brilliant book, “The Prophet”. Speaks very eloquently and beautifully about love and I would like to share it with you: Then said Almitra, Speak to us of Love. 
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a great stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said: When love beckons to you follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, 
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. 
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself. 
He threshes you to make you naked. He sifts you to free you from your husks. He grinds you to whiteness. He kneads you until you are pliant; and then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. 
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart. But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love. When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God.” And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. Khalil Gibran (1883 - 1931) Source: The Prophet pp.11-14 (On Love) Wishing you much Love in your life, Adama ************************************************************** April 2009 “Monthly Thoughts” My Monthly thoughts for April are coming to you a little late due to a very full schedule of teaching workshops and giving individual sessions in Tokyo almost all of March. I was delighted to see the Axiatonal Alignment Level 1 and Level 2 Workbook & DVD published and available for our Students and clients! Now Light Workers of all kinds can offer and utilize these simple, profound and beautiful techniques. What is even more exciting to me is that even people who have never considered themselves “Light Workers” or “Energy Workers” can actually teach themselves the Axiatonal Alignment techniques and offer this to friends, family and even themselves! What I believe will really make this gracefully possible is the DVD and energy transmitted in the DVD that accompanies the Workbook. Reading the written material and then watching how it is actually performed will allow almost anyone to perform this offering of higher dimensional love, even for those who have not had the opportunity to take the Axiatonal Alignment workshops that are offered by Khakira and me. For those who wish to deepen their skill in performing and expand their understandings of the more esoteric aspects of this work we will again be offering workshops in Axiatonal Alignment Level 1 & 2 in Tokyo One student who attended the Axiatonal Alignment Level 1 & 2 Workshops we offered in Tokyo in March had never done any kind of work like this before. She was very concerned that she might not be able to really learn how to do the Axiatonal Alignments and if anyone would feel anything from her practice sessions in the Workshops. We recommended that she attend and just decide to have fun at the Workshops and see what happens. Well, she had fun, learned the techniques easily and performed them proficiently, gave excellent sessions and her classmates all felt her sessions were great! It was a joy and pleasure for me to see her work so well and powerfully after doubting herself so strongly. We offered 7 days of Workshops and many hours of individual sessions in Tokyo and had the pleasure of meeting wonderful people throughout our stay in Japan. Many of our students we had seen before as we offered an advanced level class. It is always such a pleasure to work again with “friends” from prior classes. We also met many new students who were delightful to work with and eager to receive what Khakira and I have to offer. Our individual sessions were exceptionally well received and we saw profound shifts and changes in every person we worked with. We were able to offer tools and techniques that allow for a lasting shift and change for those who desired it. We also offered multiple tools and techniques to allow ones life to flow more gracefully and be filled with more joy, happiness, love and fulfillment in our Workshops as well as individual sessions. I feel our time in Japan this March was an outstanding success for everyone and I really look forward to coming back again. It has been said, “ We do not see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.” How we “are” is a mixture of the beliefs we hold as “true” and the thoughts we are habitually thinking combined with the feelings we are experiencing. Beliefs are just thoughts we have kept alive in our minds until we have hardly become conscious of them. They are like the programs that run inside a computer allowing it to do its various jobs without having to start all over from the beginning each time it is asked to do a particular task. We acclimate our beliefs from how we were raised, the culture we grow up in, and our family and the people we associate with daily. The thoughts that we think as we go about our daily lives are powerful forces and since we live in a kind and loving universe what we are sending out (our thoughts and feelings) the universe gives back to us. This is a simple “law” of how things really work here on Earth. What we focus on and put our attention on we attract more and more of into our lives. The more emotional intensity we put into something be it positive or negative the quicker it may manifest in our lives. So, focusing on what I do not want is just like asking for more of the same to come to me! Focusing on what brings me joy, love, enthusiasm, excitement, pleasure and what we are passionate about calls out for the universe to give more of this to me. As we then go about projecting out the particular energy that is composed of our beliefs, thoughts and feelings (like a human radio transmitter sending out various channels of vibrations) the world reflects this back to us (the same channels we are sending out). This reflection of us then becomes our view of the “world” or how we see the world and what the “world” is like. We can then say, “See!!! This is “how” the world is because this and this and this, is happening to me. And see! Look at all these things that are going on in the world outside of my personal life, it is just like I knew it would be because “this” is the way the world IS.” What is often missing is the understanding that of all the possibilities available and they are countless, what we see and consider the world outside of ourselves is simply a reflection of what we are projecting out into the world being the energy transmitters that we are. So then like attracts like. The same channel we are sending out is what we will tune into and get the physical manifestations of that same channel. Like turning your TV to a particular channel. If you tune your TV to channel 7 and expect to receive what is on channel 11 you will be disappointed. If you want to receive what is on channel 11 you need to tune into that frequency, that particular bandwidth. So, you and I each have the choice of what we wish the universe to deliver to us. As it can be an almost impossible task to be conscious of and monitor all our thoughts there is a simple way to guarantee what we will be receiving from the Universe is what we really want. The simple and absolutely effective way to bring into our physical reality what we truly desire is to live in a state of joy, of love and happiness as much as possible. When we live this channel this particular bandwidth that is what we will begin to have reflected back to us and see around us. From this “state” of being in the world, the universe will bring to us all those things that have just been waiting for our alignment to allow the proper synchronicities to “happen”! All that we really want and desire is waiting in a non-physical place ready to be physically manifested. Our alignment with the higher vibration of love, joy, happiness, bliss and following what we are passionate about puts us in the vibration that allows all we have been desiring to physically manifest in ways we might never have thought probable or possible. From this state of joy we flow with the river of life and it effortlessly takes us to where we most want to go. I feel and believe it is very true, “ We do not see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.” Please, let us then, "see" and imagine ourselves into what we desire to "see" things "as". So, if you want to change the way the world “is”, change yourself. Focus more on what brings you love, joy and happiness. Make a study of being in the world in the way that is most fulfilling to you. Study and practice love, joy and what you are passionate about. Allow yourself to be filled with so much love and joy that it naturally overflows from you. Let your way of being in the world become like an overflowing fountain that flows to those about you who are thirsty. You can uplift the world by how you choose to live your life day to day and in each choice you make. Living in joy, living in love is a gift to yourself and all those around you. You can change the "world" by uniting your thoughts and emotions into the highest picture of your vision of Heaven on Earth. The higher our personal vision, the higher "our" vision of the "world" will become and "reality" will shift accordingly. The higher our united vision of what we desire, the faster the evolution into manifesting the "now" of that vision. Wishing you all much love and joy in your life, Adama ************************************************************** March 2009 Monthly Thoughts Please take a moment to imagine an incredibly amazing and powerful being. A being that is incredibly vast and almost unbelievably powerful. This is a being who is not limited by time and space, a Godlike creature that knows the past and future and lives in an eternal “NOW” exploring life from an ever present “NOW” that expands like light radiating from a star that shines in all directions. It can be extremely challenging to try to comprehend such a being and its existence from our Earthly perspective. It might in a way be like a single cell in your body trying to comprehend and understand the complexity, vastness, motivations and world that comprise the entirety that you are. This single cell in your body would “understand” and relate to “you” from its own perspective and reference points of “reality”. A cell in your big toe might interpret the “reality” of whatever it is looking at very differently than a cell in your heart would. Please take a moment and play with this imagining with me. Imagine life from the perspective of that single cell at the bottom of your big toe. What might it routinely feel? Maybe the pressure often placed around it as the foot presses into the ground or the bottom of a shoe as you are waling about during your day. Maybe the long break from pressure as you sleep during the night and the shorter breaks as you sit in a chair. Can you think of more ways it might “feel” its world around itself? Can you think of ways it might “hear”? How might the blood flowing around it sound to it? Would it be different when walking to the train station as compared to when the body sleeps at night? Would it hear the heart beating louder sometimes or just feel different flows around it depending on the time of day or night or what you might be doing? What other ways might this single cell at the bottom of your big toe “see”, “hear”, “feel” and “taste” the world around itself? From those impressions it would interpret the world around itself and thus make up pictures of “reality” of how things “are”. Most likely all the other cells around it would agree, “This, IS how the world IS”. Now lets do the same procedure with a single cell in your heart. The heart cell would “hear” the flow of blood around itself continually and in a different way than the cell in the toe. What other ways might this single cell in your heart “see”, “hear”, “feel” and “taste” the world around itself? From those impressions it would interpret the world around itself and thus make up pictures of “reality” of how things “are”. Most likely all the other cells around it would agree, This, “IS” how the world “IS”. Can you imagine yourself as this cell in the heart and then examine the world around you? Are there other places in your body where you could imagine a cell and then explore that particular cells “world”? I hope you take some time with this process and discover some interesting things and possibly sharpen your awareness of your body in ways you might not have been conscious of before. So, from here if you have taken a little time to play with this process and not to just read you will have a much better feeling and understanding of where I am going with all this, if you if you have not already guessed! Here we are now the individual “human” surrounded by other “humans”. We each live in similar and not so similar places and may have jobs and lives that are similar and not so similar. We all interpret the world through our physical senses of sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. All in reference to the world around us and the culture we have been brought up in. I do not live deep in the Amazon jungle with a small group of humans far from other groups living in the same jungle. If I was, my ways of interpreting and relating to the greater world around myself would be very different from living in a small town in the Pacific Northwest in the United States where I currently do live. Now, please remember where we started: Imagining an incredibly amazing and powerful being. A being that is incredibly vast and almost unbelievably powerful. This is a being who is not limited by time and Space, a Godlike creature that knows the past and future and lives in an eternal “NOW” exploring life from an ever present “NOW” that expands like light radiating from a star that shines in all directions. You are an aspect of this incredibly amazing and powerful being. A being that is incredibly vast and almost unbelievably powerful. Using the same idea of the single cells trying to interpret their world and then projecting their world view on everything else, we do a similar projection with what we call “God” and Angels and other vast beings who are really just larger parts of ourselves separated through dimensions yet still very much in contact with us. We do our best to “understand” what is barely understandable from our Earthly understandings, perceptions and pictures of reality. You do not need to really try to understand what is beyond our comprehension and put human qualities on something so far beyond human understanding. What is important to know is that you are so much more than just this physical body, that you have a constant and continual connection with the greater aspect of yourself that loves you unquestioningly because you are a part of its wholeness. You and what you do allow for expansion and growth of All-That-Is. You are eternal and chose to experience this Earthly life for the experiences it brings. You have help and support from non-physical beings if you ask for it. You came here to enjoy life and follow the paths that bring you the most love, joy, fulfillment and expansion. Your heart opening and feelings will guide you in the direction that will bring you all that you desire if you continually move in the direction of thoughts and feelings that “feel” good to you or at least lean in the direction of thoughts and feelings that feel better. The more you vibrate in the frequency of love the more your life will move in the direction that brings you joy, love and fulfillment. Wishing You ever-expanding capacity, grace & ease as you move into the unfolding of all that you are. Blessings, Adama ************************************************************** February 2009 “Monthly Thoughts” When life challenges us with events that are not what we find pleasing we can be sure of several things. 1. We have somehow become in resonance with the frequency or vibration that attracts or allows this event to physically manifest in our life. 2. We can raise and thus change our frequency and vibration so that we invite more pleasing “things” to us into our life. How we respond to those times when we find that we have intersected with things that are not pleasing to us begins the process of bringing the next things we will set into motion to intersect with. We do not have to deny what is going on or pretend that what is currently manifesting is somehow pleasing or even acceptable. How we respond to what is currently manifesting in our lives sets into motion the chain of events that will lead to more of the same, worse than what is currently manifesting or a continual movement forward into more and more pleasing events to manifest in our life. What is, really is just what “is” and that is all. It is like driving in your car and running out of gas in an incontinent place. You know exactly what to do; you get more gas for your vehicle and then continue on your way to your intended destination. Finding yourself having manifested something unpleasing, you know what to do, you simply make choices that bring you more “gas” and you continue on you way to the destination you really want to be going. You see you are in charge of this process. Finding yourself stopped and out of gas somewhere is only and indication of thoughts, ideas and emotions that you have put out catching up with you. It is an indication that you have been paying attention putting energy (thoughts and emotions) in a direction that is most likely unintentionally creating this lack of “gas” situation. The simplest way to get more “gas” is to consciously choose to think thoughts that feel good to you. Thoughts that help you lean in the direction that feels uplifting or even brings just a little bit of relief. Thinking about what it is you want and where you want to go shifts the vibration you have been putting out in a way that will bring you the gas you need to move forward to what you really want. Thinking about the qualities of what you want and how good it would feel having those qualities manifesting in your life right now brings cleaner, higher-octane gas that lets you move faster forward! Moaning about having run out of gas in such a rotten place and how it must be somebody’s fault (other than your own energy management) that you are currently stuck and out of gas or maybe being harsh with yourself for allowing this to happen only prolongs the time it will take to get refueled and worse can set the stage for less pleasant things to arrive. Imagining the FEELINGS of having what you want as if it was already physically manifested will tell the Universe to bring this “thing” into physical materialization for you. You do not have to figure out how to make this happen. Allow the Universe to bring it into manifestation for you. Trust that if you do your part: 1. Consciously choosing to focus on thoughts and ideas that feel good to you. Thoughts that help you lean in the direction that feels better or brings relief. 2. Using your intellect and imagination to discern and discover the qualities of the things you wish for rather than just thinking of the specific object. 3. Do all you can to FEEL in the here and now those qualities in your life as if they were currently manifested and a hard physical reality for you. The Universe will deliver your desiring to you in a way better and more proficiently than if you tried to figure out how to make it happen and bring it to you yourself. The absolute key in this whole process is bringing you into a state of being that is happy and feeling joy. When you are feeling happy, feeling love flowing through you and focusing on seeing the beauty that is all around you the Universe knows to bring you your hearts desires. Making feeling good a priority in your life, allowing love to be ever present and flowing through you also is the way to be of greatest service to all those around you and the world as a whole. Wishing you much love, grace & ease during all the shifts and changes this New Year brings, Adama January 2009 “Monthly Thoughts” We have made it through some challenging times and the light will begin to shine more and more in each coming day. Please remember that whatever you are currently experiencing is only an indication of past thoughts, feelings and emotions made physical. In the same way as you have made your way to this point in time and all that is unfolding around you, you can write a new story that will manifest into the “now” that will unfold around you. You have the ability to write a story about yourself and your life that will keep you in basically the same place or move you higher or lower depending on how you choose to write it. I recommend writing a new story for this New Year filled with all the love, joy and wonder you can possibly imagine! How you talk and interact with people day to day, how you think and feel and what you choose to focus on and pay attention to is how you write your story. If you are wanting and desiring some change, tell a new story! Feel this new story as if it were really here and now! Really enjoy how it feels to have all the love in your life you desire even if it is not physically apparent to you right now. Really feel how it would feel to have all the money you desire to do all the things you would like to do even if it is not currently in your bank account. Feel how great it feels to have people surrounding you who love and support you in everything you do and all the choices you make even if this is not currently the case. Imagine you are doing exactly the job that is most fulfilling to you and working with others who are supportive and enthusiastic as you are, even if this is not currently happening for you right now. Imagine you feel exuberantly alive, vital, full of energy, optimism, hope and see your life as a marvelous adventure that you are the shinning star of. When people ask you how you are doing and what is happening in your life tell them of your new story and how wonderful it is. Your job is to believe “it” before you see “it”! When you really do this the Universe moves to make your story “real” and brings about all the things necessary for the story to physically manifest. You absolutely can do this and you have all the skills and tools necessary to do this. You do your job and let the Universe worry about how it will deliver and manifest your story into physical “reality”. I received the questions below from a very dear client and I thought the answers might be something valuable for you to consider as you start the New Year. 1. What is health? 2. What is a healing? 3. Who is the real healer? 1. I would define “health” as: The bodies natural state of being in alignment with all dimensions of its physical and non-physical energy systems. The state of being vibrantly alive, loving, joyful, being at ease with the unknown, loving and feeling the love of others. Being at ease with living in the physical world and participating in this Earthly dance. 2. Healing is the natural response of our bodies to injury, stress and anything that might bring us out of our natural state of health, wellbeing and balance. Others can assist us to regain our balance and health, like when we offer a hand to a person who has fallen down to help them up. Sometimes offering too much help deprives an individual of doing what is necessary for them to gain the strength, skills and abilities to take care of themselves and this leads to a dependency on the helper to do the “work” for the other person. Sometimes people who call themselves “healers” really are disempowering to others and seek out people who they can “heal”, “fix” and “save” to justify their need to be of service to others. 3. When we hold people as the true Multi-dimensional Masters that they truly are we realize there is no need to heal, fix or save anyone else. I believe the “real” healer is the individual himself or herself and that a person who can help others to find their own power, alignment and the doorway to discovering how to find their own alignment, balance, healing and health is the real “healer”. The real “healer” stands in their own power and shows the way through the example of their own lives and gently assists others into discovering the Master that they truly are. The person who is a real “healer” holds and energy of balance, health and alignment and radiates love, compassion and caring that is automatically “felt” by those around them that this person is best able to assist them. A real “healer” is a person who can best assist others in regaining their health, alignment and balance through their actively radiating love, their competence in being able to help those around them to shift into a higher vibration through various techniques they may have learned and often just by their high radiating vibration that invites others to raise their own vibration to a higher level. A true “healer” views each person as a Multi-dimensional Master who intuitively know what is best for themselves and is able to assist others to discover the pathway that allows them to rebalance, align and bring themselves into a higher state of vibration thus allowing their natural processes of health and healing to do the necessary adjustments in their energy fields. 4. We are the real “healer” for ourselves. Others may assist us to find the pathway to our own health. Like when we are lost sometimes asking directions from another helps us find the right direction to go on again. We still are the ones who must make the decision to follow the correct pathway or go through the doorway that leads us to where we desire to go. Others also can give us directions that led us away from where we really want to go and if we trust them and follow their advice or guidance we can find ourselves farther away from our desired destination. So, we can only really bring ourselves into health and we are the ones who allow healing to take place. One more thought for the New Year that I would like to share with you: True love is very clear and makes no mandates of another. Love always wishes what is best for others. Love knows that taking care of oneself first, then gives the ability to love. Loving and honoring oneself first and foremost is the foundation that allows us to be of any service to others at all. In Light, Love & Service, Adama ************************************************************************************************** December 2008 Monthly Thoughts We have seen a physical manifestation of profound change here in the United States as evidenced by the election of a man to be our President who is not of purely white Anglo-Saxon genetics as well as supporting a platform for progressive change. It is a demonstration of the shift that is happening away from what has been an established order of thinking on many levels. There was much contrast needed for many people to embrace this needed change in perspective. Many people needed to experience some extreme circumstances so they would be open for a change and then to take the necessary actions that will provide more of what they truly desire. This change as with all change that is physically manifested came from the non-physical dreams, requests and desires for a shift in how things were currently physically manifesting. When we continue to do the same things, think the same thoughts and take the same actions we continue to get mostly the same things. There is a definition of crazy that I am fond of: Crazy is doing the same things over and over and then expecting different results. Please let us choose not to be crazy in out thinking. When I think of “doing” I am more and more concerned with the “thinking”, “dreaming” and “imagining” than of physical actions that are taken. All that is manifested in a physical way comes from the non-physical that then unites and merges into the physical we see in our day to day life. The “story” that we tell is one way to maintain or to call forth a shift in what we see as our physical day to day existence. This is what we generally call our reality. Our “story” is what we say to ourselves in our mind, our self-talk and what we say to others. If someone asks you “how are you doing?” how you reply is your “story!” So, if you like how your physical day-to-day reality is going, tell that story. If you are having a really challenging day filled with difficulties and strange and unpleasant interactions and happenings by telling this “story” in a detailed fashion you energetically attune to this frequency and then attract more of the same! You create what becomes you day to day “reality” by the story you tell. You might say well Adama; I would not be telling the “truth” if I say something different than exactly how “IT IS” and I must tell the truth. Well telling exactly how it is almost guarantees that this is what you will get more of. So, I do my best to tell a story of how I would like it to be, how I would like my present reality to shift or to or to remain as. I tell the greater “truth” demonstrating my knowledge of how the Universe works and how I can bring about what I want. On one of those challenging and simply difficult days when I am asked how it is going I often reply, “It has been challenging and it is getting better and better. This is what I would like to see happening and then describe what I would like to see and then say that I know it will be this way shortly.” My story is not about all my difficulties, challenges and the things that I perceive not working out the way I want them to but about how I want my future to manifest. I know that no matter how difficult things may appear to me at any given “now” point in time that I have the ability to consciously shift what is into something better and more of my desiring. You have this same ability. This is your power and strength. This is why you chose to be physically manifest here on this world, to explore contrast and to consciously create what you desire! We somehow have found ourselves in a society that does not give most of us the real knowledge and tools to create in ways that allow graceful shift and change. We are brought up to think the harder we WORK, the more we sacrifice and conform to society then eventually we will get what we want. The truth is we can create change in amazing and miraculous ways through our attunement to what we want by our alignment with our Higher-Self and the non-physical actions we take. We all can bring to ourselves the circumstances where we are in the “right” place at the “right” time through our alignment and the story we tell. When we use our natural strength and power to create through our dreams, intentions, the alignment with our Higher-Self and the story we tell the Universe delivers our desiring in amazingly fast and efficient ways. The Universe will give us what we want without us having to do all the physical things that our society and most of our history has taught us is the way to do things and to get the things that we want. So, please align with your Higher-Self, dream and imagine your highest pictures of how you would like to live and what would be your finest picture of living heaven on earth and then tell your story in a way that supports all you want to manifest. Feel right here and now the joy, love, wealth, the pleasure in the relationships and interactions you want and the Universe will do all in its ability to deliver this to you as quickly and efficiently as possible. Live here and now in joy and love, actually FEELING the joy, the love and the alignment NOW at this point in time and the Universe hears and sets into motion the circumstances to allow the here and now physical manifestations of you desiring. All you have to do is get out of the way of this taking place. You get out of the way by living here and now in love, joy, enthusiasm and having the most fun and delight you can imagine in any now point in time. I wish you Beautiful Dreaming, Great Love and the Highest Alignment with your Higher-Self! Please feel NOW all the love, pleasure, delight and Joy that having all your hearts desires manifested here and now would give you and then KNOW it is on its way. In Light, Laughter & Love, Adama ********************************************************************************************* November 2008 Monthly Thoughts I work with many people some young and those who have lived many years and had much life experience. Often a Father or Mother is very concerned about a son or daughter who seems to have a difficult time living in the world. I would like to share with you parts of a session I did with a young woman named Grace. The information that I have offered may be helpful to you in a number of ways. Some of you reading this may have a similar concern for a loved one, others may relate directly to the situation of Grace and how she has coped with the world. I offer some suggestions that will allow for shift and change. I could feel her mothers deep love and connection and her strong desire to assist Grace to move forward in the world. I found Grace be a very sweet and loving young woman. She was also drifting through life without any direction or passion. She attracted boyfriends that took advantage of her passiveness and used her with little regard to how Grace felt. Grace worked at jobs that were well below her abilities and for people who did not value and appreciate her. I found in Grace sweetness and a pained and heavy heart. A heart heavy because of some tragedy or loss that has happened in her life that is not resolved. This could also be about the state of the world or her looking at other people’s struggles in the world and feeling a despair and hopelessness. This heaviness and pain could be actively let go of or given away to her Higher Self in some sort of meditation or ceremony allowing Grace a new perspective on life and how to live in the world more fully with more love, joy and participation in creating fresh new “reality” for herself. Have you ever tried to pick up cat that is sleeping somewhere, and does not really want to be moved? The cat feels twice as heavy as it actually is and the cat does not usually feel real happy about being moved. Grace’s energy felt this way to me. A lot of energetic clearing would allow her to shift and change from a horizontal position to a more vertical position. When I use the term “horizontal positioning” it means an alignment with mundane earthly events, distractions, focusing on negative things rather than more positive, looking more at what is wrong in the world and others than what is right and working well, seeing a glass of water that is 50% full as half empty rather than half full. When I use the term “vertical positioning” it means an active and conscious alignment with ones Higher-Self, seeing the world as a loving and safe place, knowing that all is in perfect order and alignment and that better things are in the process of manifestation and have not quite arrived yet, seeing or just knowing that there is a purpose in all events, laughing and feeling love and joy at simply being alive. I found that Grace has wrapped herself up with what looked like cotton all around her; that insulates her from her real feelings and sometimes life. This dulls her in a way that no longer serves her. Drugs and alcohol do not serve her at this time and tend to dull her feelings and emotions. Being very conscious about what she does that dull her and then to greatly reduce or eliminate these things would be very helpful. This insulating type energy may once have served her and now it does not serve her. Grace needs to consciously choose not to live in this type of a cocoon or she will just re-create it again and again. Once Grace actively makes the choice to maintain a vertical position it will be much easier than ever before to have change in her life. Grace needs to be the one to desire and want this change, as well as be willing to make the choices necessary to maintain a more vertical position in life. As much as her mother cares and loves Grace any help she offers is soon lost because this journey of life is Graces and only she can make the decision to shift and change her situation. For any lasting change to occur, Grace needs to very actively and consciously state that she desires change and is willing to take the steps necessary to change her life. Grace needs to find what she is passionate about in life. Finding what she loves doing, something that she is passionate about, that is exciting, that brings her joy and fulfillment will automatically give her energy, enthusiasm and focus. Doing what other people want her to do and being a “good girl” to please others only brings resistance, rebelliousness (choosing to be a “bad girl”) and tiredness. It is time for her to discover herself. And who she is and who she wants to be in the world. It is time for her to discover her own mastery, sense of self worth, desires and focuses in the world. This may be very different from what others have planned for her or desire for her. And Grace needs to be able to let go of this (what others have planned for her or desire for her) and stand as a mature adult and consciously make the choices she truly wants in her life. There may be some discomfort with this and that is only natural and a part of growing up and becoming a master of ones own fate and destiny. Here are my recommendations for Grace to assist in change and movement into self mastery and a much more self-fulfilling life: Make a contract with yourself stating your desire for change and the type of change you truly wish for. This can be written down and then spoken out loud. Do what is needed to let go of the weight and heaviness being carried in the heart. 1. Take time daily to do a simple meditation that is enjoyable for you. Maybe 5 minutes a day, and something as simple as breathing in sparkling white light to the center of your heart and letting it expand throughout your body and into your energy bodies. 2. Pursue a creative activity that you feel passionate about and are fun for you to do. Do this at least once a week or more. 3. Focus on what you want more of in your life. Focus on what brings you joy, love and a feeling of expansion in your heart area. 4. Follow your bliss, your love, your joy and pleasure and what you can become excited about and are passionate about. 5. Treat yourself like your would your best most beloved friend. Talk to yourself like you would talk to someone your dearly love, respect and honor. Take the advice you give yourself from this loving, kind and compassionate friend (Yourself!). 6. Let go of what no longer serves you and are just weights preventing you from flying. 7. Do something new and different at least once a week. 8. Speak your truth in a kind but firm and loving way to others. I hope this exploration of a session was helpful to you and that you may find principals and ways of being in the world that will serve you and those you love better. I wish you much love, laughter, joy, excitement and passion in your life! In Light, Love and Service, Adama ******************************************************************************************** October 2008 Monthly Thoughts The state of our physical health can allow us to effortlessly move through life and at times weight us down so that it feels like our lack of health and vitality is all there is. One of the most challenging things for most of us is observing our current state of health when it is not as we would like it to be and then shifting our focus and attention on it so that it can shift and change to a higher level. When we are in pain or observing very real physical symptoms that do not seem to change it can make everything in our life less than it could be. Remember change first starts with your mental visioning and your thinking. Your mental actions create the change that then is manifested physically. Your thoughts are more important in creating change than the physical actions you may take. Imagine and visualize what you want. Put your emotional intensity, your love, and your passion into what you want to attract more of in your life. Then the universe knows clearly what to physically manifest for you. Imagine and dream of what you want and let the feelings of joy and pleasure of your imagining and dreams fill you as if you already had what ever it is you are imagining and dreaming about. Allow this joy and pleasure here and now. You create your future with your thoughts that you are thinking here and now. Feeling the joy and pleasure of having what you desire here and now even before it is physically manifested will speed its physical manifestation for you. Focus on how you are young, beautiful and have a healthy well functioning body. Do not look for and focus on those things that contradict this or what ever it is you desire and want. Know that you are always shifting and changing and what has manifested in your life now is only an indication of your past thoughts. Change your thoughts and feelings and you will manifest in relation to the new thoughts and feelings. I have a suggestion for you to assist your process of regaining your physical balance and alignment that you can do in a simple meditation or visualization. I would suggest you do this just before going to sleep and just before you get up in the morning. It does not have to take long and can be a very nurturing and pleasurable experience as well as bringing you what you desire much more quickly. When you first do this you may have feelings arise in opposition to what is being called for in the meditation. Notice how these feelings, thoughts or images may be disempowering to you and even hold you in a state of being that is other than the perfect health and alignment that is possible for you to live in. You may need to take time to resolve them so that they are not running in the background or are unconsciously sabotaging you health and wellbeing. This meditation or visualization works best if you allow yourself to be as comfortable as possible in a quiet and peaceful state. If you happen to drift off in your thoughts or fall asleep that is fine. If you drift off in your thoughts, gently bring yourself back to the meditation and continue. If you fall asleep, you will have set a very good intention that will be carried forward in your sleep time and be very valuable and of assistance for you. 1. Please imagine the perfect state of physical health and wellness you would like to have radiating from you. 2. Imagine how you would feel and how you might look in this perfect state of health and aliveness. 3. Feel the strength, power and balance that flow through your body. 4. Feel your aliveness and your readiness to take on anything you may choose to do with excitement and joy. 5. Imagine the joy and pleasure it feels to have more energy and health than ever before flowing through your body. Really take the time to allow this joy and pleasure to totally fill and overflow out from you and all around you. 6. Imagine and visualize looking in a mirror and see the vibrant power of your health and wellbeing flowing out from your eyes, how your skin glows golden and maybe even violet light pulses and flows around your body like a gentle flame that burns off anything that is not serving your highest health and well-being. 7. Imagine when you felt the most love and connection in your life. Really allow the feelings of this love to fill you and flow through all parts of your body. 8. Look at this magnificent physical body with this love you are feeling and creating. Appreciate and love the physicality you see before you as the perfect vehicle to allow the divinity of you non-physical Higher-Self to ground through on this Earth. 9. Imagine and feel the love, strength, power and vitality of your Higher-Self pulsing through your veins and empowering you in an amazing and invigorating way. 10. Notice how your physicality is the perfect vehicle for the expression of your divinity. 11. Allow the feelings of health, wellness, vitality, love and empowerment to course through you and all your bodies systems. Know you are loved and supported in all ways. Please stay in this state of being as long as you are able or that feels good to you. I look forward to hearing any feedback you may care to share regarding my Monthly Thoughts. If you find them helpful and worth sharing with friends and loved ones I would be very pleased. I wish you great joy, health, excitement, enthusiasm, passion, adventure and love, Adama *********************************************************************************************************************** September 2008 Monthly Thoughts I have a little story for you this month that may be familiar to some of you and surprisingly comforting and even informative to others. This story starts as many stories do with the words, “Once upon a time.” This lets the listener know that what they are about to hear is a story, a tale that may entertain, contain wisdom and is simplified so that the message can be conveyed in a way that allows for unusual and sometimes foreign ideas to be looked at gently. Once upon a time, in a place where there was no time a vast energy became aware that in our “human” terms it was a little bored. Now this vast energy was such that we with our human minds can not really understand how such a thing could be, that such an entity so unimaginably huge, all knowing and powerful could ever become tired of its existence. Well it was and because it knew everything nothing could surprise it or really give it an original thought or idea. So after what might be to us a couple of billion years this entity that was so large our whole universe was like the size of a single atom in relation to the whole Earth devised a plan to give it expansion and growth as well as having the delight in discovering something new. The idea that was conceived was to separate parts of itself and send these parts out away from itself in such a way that the separated parts would have an individual consciousness of their own. Now these smaller parts of the great whole were in constant connection and communication with their greater self and even though they had individuated consciousness because of the connection and constant direct communication nothing unique or new really was achieved or discovered. These parts of the greater whole assumed different functions, purposes and could work together or separately however they desired. Generally speaking, some parts became primarily Creators and others Servers to the Creators and their creations. Another plan was born through the understandings gained from the first group of individuated parts of the greater consciousness. The plan was to further individuate and then to construct places of “free will” where the further individuated parts would find themselves in a place of forgetfulness that would allow for the freedom to discover and create from an illusion of separation from the whole of who they really are. The universes constructed would allow for the biological “housing” of the individuated parts in various forms of physical expression. Once physically housed the individuated parts would “forget” almost all of who and what they really are and where they may most recently have “originated” from as well as the inseparable connection to the oneness and unity that they truly are. Various constructs were put into place within the physical biology to assist in the forgetfulness and reinforce the illusion of separation. So, with great enthusiasm and excitement individuated portions of God-Goddess-All-That-Is further individuated and lined up to send and allow another fragment, a spark of them to incarnate into a physical biological entity that was wonderfully limited. Forgetting and being limited as compared with knowing everything that would ever happen was the key to helping the expansion of All-that-Is in unique and new ways offering challenge and new possibilities to unfold. The biological entity, amazingly complex and able to reproduce creating more biological entities like themselves able to house even more sparks of a greater whole a greater divinity into a “new” growing, evolving body that would be able to continue this process of expansion and creation for all of the physical and non physical parts combined expansion! With great delight, many plans, ideas to explore, multiple options and untold combinations of interaction to be explored this family of light, non-physical entities parts of even greater aspects of themselves sent multiple sparks, multiple aspects of themselves into physical worlds into physical bodies. All knew that once physically incarnated the Sparks would forget their true origin and immortal nature and believe themselves to be much much less than what they truly are. Because of this forgetting all kinds of new and unique situations could be acted out. The actors could play all different kinds of roles throughout the ages as this physical place would have the illusion of time so firmly set within the biology of the incarnated Sparks and their physicality would have a limited lifespan so all possibilities and possible combinations of roles could be played and acted out. The physical bodies aged through time and then transitioned back to their greater non-physical aspects to line up again to have the chance to be physical again and to continue to play various roles with their brothers and sisters in physical form. Even though the Sparks would forget their true nature they were all given a guidance system that allowed them to navigate in the worlds they found themselves in. They would get direction and guidance from the greater non-physical parts of themselves through their feelings. Their feelings were a direct way to align with the pathways offering the highest choice in any given situation. Feelings of joy, enthusiasm, excitement, passion, heart opening, love and the feeling of just knowing what was “right” would guide and point out the way. The stage for this grand play that the Sparks were the actors on would offer the opportunity for separation, the illusion of death (to make it all feel so “real” and critically important) and the opportunity to play multiple roles and challenge each other to bring out the highest expression of creativity within each other. Being vast multi-dimensional masters there would be constant assistance, guidance and opportunity for shift and change from the non-physical aspect of the Sparks and other non-physical entities whose joy is to assist in the ongoing play. The individual Sparks could decide if they wanted to act in a drama, comedy, love story, adventure or whatever aspect they might individually choose to focus on. Through their connection to the source of all that is whatever the individual Sparks decided to focus on they would increase that in their own reality, their own world The Sparks mission was through the contrast of knowing what they would prefer not to have or participate in as their reality would be to create the reality the life situations they each uniquely desired through their focus and what they gave their attention to. They could individually and collectively create whatever they focused on and due to the delay in time from thought to manifestation they could change their direction as they evolved and as it pleased them. Some Sparks had some preset agendas and by following the path that contained the most “heart”, the path that was illuminated for them through their feelings and emotions they would always know the better direction to take and the better choices to be made that would bring about the highest manifestations in their lives. So, I am sure you have discovered by now that every single human on this earth is in terms of the little story above a Spark. You are the physical manifestation of a vast multi-dimensional entity and are always connected, loved and supported by this greater part of you. There is much more depth and room of expansion to this “story” and maybe in future months I will offer more elaboration on the various aspects mentioned or eluded to. As always if you found reading this worthwhile please email and let me know. In Light, Love & Service, Adama *********************************************************************************************************************** August 2008 Monthly Thoughts Summertime greetings to all who may be reading this; I really hope you are enjoying your life’s creations and manifestations. Great if you are and if not, you can change what is showing up by paying more attention to what you are focusing on. What you focus on and put emotional intensity into you will attract more of that same thing into your life. Focus on what feels good, nurturing, fun, let’s you feel more alive, is heart opening, is exciting and blissful to you. Feeling good is a choice. Choose to feel good and make the choices that “feel” good to you over those that do not. You do not have to figure it all out ahead of time. Your feelings will guide you in the best direction to go in any situation. Here briefly and somewhat simply stated is how it all works: 1. You, as you know yourself physically manifested here on Earth are just a small spark of the greater part of yourself that is not physically manifested. 2. The larger part of you that is not physically manifested loves you unconditionally and is always giving you direction to help guide you so you can make choice that will bring about more of what you truly desire here on earth. 3. The direction from the larger non-physical part of you (Higher-Self) is received and recognized as positive FEELINGS (that feel good) by you here on Earth. 4. The more you are in alignment with the direction from your Higher-Self you FEEL feelings of enthusiasm, joy, love, excitement, passion and have a sense of “knowing” that you are making the best choice possible. You have a feeling of heart opening and expansion rather than a tightening and restriction. 5. So, your guidance from your Higher-Self very reliably comes through your FEELINGS. 6. Following feelings that “feel” good to you lead you in the direction that brings you closer to all the things you really want to have manifest in a physical way. 7. You are here on Earth to live a joyful life with good health and to expand into areas you have never been before. 8. What you focus on you get more of. 9. You are made up of vibrations. You are vibrating at a particular frequency. Similar vibrations attract similar vibrations. 10. Feeling good raises your overall vibration and insures you attract higher vibrational things into your life. 11. It is very hard to go from feeling depressed to feeling blissful. The distance vibrationally between the two is vibrationally too far apart. What you can do is to “lean” in the direction of whatever gives you a little relief and then to keep doing this until you can identify something that “feels” good and to do it or focus on what feel good. Then focus on that feeling. 12. Focusing on and doing and following the things that feel good to you raises your vibration and will change what you are manifesting in your life in a very positive way. 13. The “story” or stories you continually tell and believe as true create themselves and the circumstances surrounding them in your day to day life. 14. When you change the stories you tell, you will change what you are manifesting in your life. You don't want to talk about and focus on what is if you want change, you rather want to talk about what it is you want. What follows is a little story of how some of the basic principals above have been and are working in my life: I have finally purchased a new computer after many years of desiring a new one. I have also switched from the PC format that I have used for approximately 20 years to the Apple/Mac operating system. Learning how to work within a new operating system is very similar to learning how to shift from one way of living into a new and better way of living. The challenge for me and all of us desiring to shift from one mode of operating to another is all our old habits, old and rote behaviors and patterns that will not work in this new more desired and “better” system. Many of the things I have always used no longer work and there is a period of time (that I am now in) between starting and becoming proficient in doing all the things that I have done for years and years. I knew this would be a learning process that would start out slowly and continue to get faster and faster as I worked with the new operating systems and programs. I can see now that I have made many excuses to myself why it was not the “right” time to change. One of my thoughts that I had been repeating to myself over the years is how difficult and hard it would be to make such a big change. I can see how this has held me back and even “created” the difficulty in the change process. I told myself the “story” that it would be very difficult and challenging to make this shift and that repeated “story” became a part of my reality. Once I became aware of this “story” I was telling, I began to tell myself a new story of how it really would not necessarily be so hard or difficult to shift and change. This has allowed me to “feel” good enough about making the changes necessary and taking the risks involved that I then could enthusiastically do what I had really wanted to do for so very long. So once I had taken the steps necessary to non-physically initiate the process, I then could easily take the physical steps. Now I can make this ongoing process easier and more graceful by not focusing on how it is rather frustrating and difficult presently working with two computers and transitioning to the new operating system, new software and upgraded software that I was very familiar with but now has also changed. What I am doing is telling the “story” as I want it to be when people ask me how things are going. I am focusing on all the little victories and advances that I am making no matter how small or simple. I bet you can guess what is now beginning to happen. Yes, everything is getting better and more graceful! Blocks are simply being dissolved and new solutions and ways of doing things are becoming more and more easily apparent. This is an example from my life that shows the principals of how even the subtle day-to-day thinking process shapes what we experience as our “reality”. From this small example I think you can use the principals contained with it to help create the day-to-day life you really wish to experience. If this is helpful for you please let me know. I really enjoy hearing from those of you who may be reading my monthly thoughts. In Light, Love & Service, Adama *********************************************************************************************************************** Below are some thoughts from my old website posted when I was able to write. I am pleased to see that my energy level has greatly increased since then to allow me to write more often! The information contained below feels just as pertinent now as then and the personal information interesting to me from a historical perspective. If you have read this far I hope you enjoy and find useful what is below as well. *********************************************************************************************************************** It is now in January, 2005!         I am a little embarrassed to see that the last time I wrote here was one year ago.  Well, there certainly have been a lot of new things to write about during the last year.  There is no time like the present.  So I will start from right now and give an update from last year.  For those of you who are interested in hearing some of the things that have been going on in my life that have kept me away from writing more regularly, in this column.  This should also give you a window into my more personal life.        Here are some of the highlights of the last year; I will go into more description, further down the page. Khakira (my Twin-Flame), and I reconnected and came together on all levels in February. Khakira and I are now working together again and offering sessions together. I have continued to have profound energy downloads throughout the year.  My physical health and energy has continued to improve. I received certification as a Hakomi bodied centered psychotherapist in December. I have been invited to attend a two year advanced instructor-training program in Hakomi therapy that I am delighted to participate in. This body’s birth father left this plane of existence after a long full life. Had a most amazing and wonderful trip to Japan, received information on how to do new sessions and channel new energies. I moved into doing energy work full-time and am feeling more and more in empowered in all ways.        Khakira and I are now working together and are offering sessions individually as well as together.  We find that our combined energies and talents are extremely powerful and potent.  Khakira's energetic specialty is rewiring, while mine is clearing and purification.  We worked together beautifully and synergistically.  We have received information on the mechanical workings of a new session that we will do together, that will bring to consciousness that which has been previously unconscious in an individual so that it can be worked with consciously.  We are also developing workshop offerings that will train participants in various skills that they can then offer to others.        The death of my birth father has affected me on all levels.  I was very intensely with him for the last seven days of his life. This was a much humanizing experience for me.  Many tears of sadness and joy were shed during this time.  I am still reverberating with the effects of this experience.         I've been receiving what I call energy downloads for lack of a better word throughout the year and ever since I Walked-In.  The good news is that the energy downloads don't usually incapacitate me now like they used to. The bad news is that I can still be thrown pretty far off balance for a period of time, until I readjust to my new energetic state of being.  I find that my whole energetic system has adjusted and become much more balanced.  There is greater ease with my humanness, and otherworldliness combined.        I first became interested in Hakomi psychotherapy as the method of further integrating myself with the physical body. I became immediately impressed with the simplicity power grace and ease with which Hakomi, allowed one to discover that which was unconsciously organizing one's behavior.  I have found that the gentle nonviolent nature, loving presence, the profound and immediate effects were perfect to augment the other training I have received in working with clients and myself.  Hakomi can be looked at as assisted self-study.  Khakira and I just finished working with a client who flew in to see us last week for a three-session intensive.  We assisted her in following her unconscious, as exposed by her body, and the answers revealed themselves, one step at a time. In two sessions, she discovered two core issues that had affected and shaped her whole life.  She discovered for herself the reason why she had been handicapped with an issue for 45 years of her life.  We used the last session to work with her energetically to help integrate all the information and new awareness’s she had received.         My trip to Japan exceeded all my expectations. One of my primary concerns was what I'd be able to physically handle all that I would want to do and be called to do.  It was amazing the amount of energy that was able to run through me, on arrival I went without sleep for almost 3 days.  Most of my stay, I only slept a few hours each night.  The classes and sessions were beautiful amazing, wonderful and often brought tears of joy to my eyes.  The Japan Light Team who sponsored, nurtured and supported me throughout my stay was impeccable.  They sacrificed time energy resources and severe disruption of their normal day-to-day life to host me.  An interview with Star People magazine was an unexpected pleasure.  You can find the interview in the winter issue.  This trip was filled with so many beautiful moments, acts of kindness and generosity that I am continuing to review them and wonder even now.  I was tested to my limits in my ability to receive in all ways.     What’s New January 2004             The start of the New Year is an excellent time to look at ourselves with a loving and discerning eye. An eye that sees what is, with a willingness to adjust the focus in the New Year to reflect the highest of our manifestation abilities. It is a simple truth, what we focus on we create in our life.   Where is your focus? What have you created in your life? Look around and you will see it reflected back at you on all levels. You are the artist that has created the picture you find yourself in. How do you like it? Want to add some color here, tone it down over there or start over completely? What colors do you use? What emotions do you paint with? What songs do you sing into your life?   I think one of the best ways to use ones creative abilities at this time is to explore, in all ways, what is the highest expression of being human.  Is not the expression of ones highest aspect of humanness illustrated by our love? The love we share, the love we radiate out from our hearts. How does this “love” look in your creation of the world around you? How do you define love? How many different faces of love are reflected around you? Would it not be a wonderful focus to discover all you can about love, in all the ways available to you? Do you dare to write your own love story? Do you dare to live it? If your focus is not on love, what then is it on?   Love is the strongest power in this universe. Your individual focus on love will generate miracles. Some miracles you may never see as your own creation and others you will look on with awe and know your part in their making.   The choice is yours, again, this New Year. What you will put your time, energy, attention and creative abilities on?     October 10, 2003 How we create and manifest is of great interest to me. I would like to share some of my thoughts of our reality creation. The best way I know of to do this is to create a “model” to help explain my thoughts. Pictures would be of great help to illustrate this but will have to wait for my forthcoming book. A model is useful as it allows us to see and manipulate things that are vast and difficult to put into words. Please remember that a model is only a representation of something else, not it, useful and flawed by its very nature.   Imagine you are flying through space at great speed and it is dark all around you. As you think thoughts, they stream out from you and flow behind you. Imagine each thought is like a glowing pearl attached to the end of a long string that trails out behind you. As a thought recurs, it follows along the string of the same thought and lines up behind it like the start of a string of pearls. Similar thoughts may intertwine like braided pearls, becoming stronger and brighter than a single strand of pearls. Even though you are moving forward, repeated thoughts begin to “catch up” with you, illuminating you and the fields around you with their energy. Their energy magnetizes and draws into physical manifestation their content. Our unconscious thoughts and programming work in a very similar way. Unconscious thoughts can manifest what they are about into our “reality”. When this occurs it can be confusing to us, as we are unaware of them (remember, they are unconscious thoughts) and the power they generate in manifestation.   This is an extremely simplified model of an amazingly complex process. Said another way, what we focus on we create and it becomes our “reality”. If you accept this idea as possibly true, it becomes very important to monitor your own creation process. Focusing on what you want in your life, rather than what you do not want, becomes imperative.   What we do and how we interact with the world around us is of much greater potency than just thinking thoughts. I can “think” kind and loving thoughts, but if I take actions that are not kind and loving, I will manifest more things that are not kind and loving. The intensity of my emotions surrounding a thought will amplify the ability of that thought to manifest. Love and fear are primary accelerators of manifestation. Love being the most powerful and able to negate fearful thought manifestation consistently.   This is a Love-based Universe and to create without love is like building a boat with bindings that will dissolve as it is used. What is built in love will hold and maintain its integrity with use and over time. You can look forward to seeing things built without love to dissolve faster and faster as we move forward in time.   Very simply stated: 1.    You create the “reality” you live in. 2.    You create “reality” with your thoughts, 3.    What you focus on you manifest. 4.    Emotional intensity accelerates manifestation. 5.    Manifestation with love lasts. 6.    Loving thoughts negate fearful thoughts. 7.    Your actions tell the Universe what to give you more of.   This creation process is moment by moment created and then uncreated. Complicating matters is the fact that we are in a co-creative union with others around us. Think of a small circle with greater circles around it, each interacting with and affecting the others. What you think and do affects the whole world. Also complicating this model are the parallel realities that are being integrated back into a single pathway of highest choice and creation.   Each idea presented here could easily be a chapter in a book. I hope this simple model will be stimulation for you to consider why things manifest or do not manifest in your life. I would be glad to clarify any of the above thoughts to the best of my ability if you have any questions.   August 13, 2003  Of primary focus to me is empowering those who are drawn to my work. Your own discernment in this time period is critical. If you wish to give your power away, there are a multitude of people available to accept your time and energy to “help” you! They may be of the highest of integrity, sincere people very willing to tell you what to do and what they “know” is best for you. If you are looking for someone like this, I am not who you are looking for. I do not need or want your power.   You are a Multi-dimensional Master, a divine spark of All-That -Is physically manifested here on earth. It is time to assume your Mastery. If your first step is giving it away, it is going to be a longer journey than we may have time for right now! You have the ability to discern what is best for you in any moment. Your heart holds the key to using this discernment.   Your Higher Self (Spirit) talks to you through the feeling sense in your heart. It knows what is most correct for you in any moment and is far wiser than what your head may be advising you out of “common” sense and its survival orientation.  How do I listen to my Heart? 1.    Learn to discern when it is opening or closing by asking simple yes or no questions. 2.    Choose to move through life by following the path that opens the heart. 3.    Learn to make finer and finer distinctions of “open” & “closed.” 4.    Choose to move through life by following the path that opens the heart.   A first step in discerning if the heart opens or closes is allowing yourself to become quiet and center your consciousness in the heart area. Give yourself a few moments to relax and center using whatever techniques may work for you. Think of your name. 1. Ask this question to yourself, “My name is (say your name here),” paying close attention to your heart area and how it feels   there when you say your name to yourself. 2. Ask this question to yourself, “My name is (say some other name here),” paying close attention to your heart area and how it feels there when you say the incorrect name to yourself. 3. Repeat 1 and 2 several times, feeling what happens in your heart area as you do this.   Most people feel a sense of contraction in their heart area when they say the incorrect name. Use this feeling sense to discern what is “true” and “false” for you. It may be helpful to start simply and choose to follow less important questions first. Questions like,”Should I eat this food?” or “Is this food good for me to eat right now?” When you follow your heart in simple less stressful questioning it will become easier for bigger more emotionally laden questions to give you a clear answer.   I have found that daily practice of using this technique transitions into a feeling knowing sense in your heart area that allows you to follow your highest path in any given moment. This is a wonderful daily meditation practice. Amazing things have “happened” in my life as I choose from my opened heart. Lack of sleep, stress and emotional distress can make “hearing” what the correct choice is for you much more difficult, so practicing with the easy times allows a much better chance of “hearing” the best choice in those difficult times.   Please let me know how this works for you and if it is helpful. ********************************************************************************************************************** © 2008 Adama Hamilton. 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