Aloha!
Nice to see all of you across the planet, each of you creating your amazing journeys on this Good Earth. I greet you with a Radiant Heart, excited about the possibilities for us all in the powerful and present year ahead.
I have been considering a message for this year, 2009. As I meditated upon it, what became very clear and very essential is the vision of unity. Lets start by considering some definitions of unity. What is it?
According to several dictionary definitions unity is:
“The state or quality of being one; The state or quality of being in accord, in harmony; Something whole or complete formed by combining or joining separate things or entities;"
"The act of combining separate things or entities to form one”
Take a moment and notice your inner being’s response to these definitions.
First, lets greet the vibrational frequency required to attain unity. It is a very powerful and loving place, a kingdom of music, brilliance and immense beauty. Tune in right now and see what that looks like or feels like for you. I am looking at some glorious colors from over here.
What is your vision of unity? Do you have one? Let’s explore this!
The potential in the vibration of unity is amazingly radiant! Can you feel and imagine what it means to you and yours for true unity to happen in our world? In the frequency of unity, it is possible to heal absolutely anything! It is a container for grace. It is a place where you can have all the joy, creativity, safety, prosperity, wellness, communication and love that you are needing and wanting. Let's proceed together and build a true vision of unity!
Keep in mind that creating and manifesting this vision is a process. It is important to remember that we are each building new reference points for unity, as we may not have had enough experience of it in this lifetime to hold a true knowing of it.
Many of us have been raised in families, schools, communities, societies, etc. that were not operating in a very harmonic state. Sometimes these places were so disconnected that there was little to no harmony at all. Because of this, we have adapted and coped with having our foundations set in the energy of anxiety and a disassociating sense of separation.
Many of us in the world have been aware of this on some level, and have been, in varying ways, (and yes I am talking to you!) making a new dream, a dream where we can find a way to heal the fragments within and create space for true unity in the world around us.
At this time, this moment, take heart, for all the work you have been doing and all of the dreams you have been dreaming are paying off. Look around. The world is changing! There is more to do now than ever, but we are moving towards this unity and that is fantastic! It is time for us each to have a vision for unity and hold it close so we can use it to help heal our world. So how do we move with the river that would take us there and what are the obstacles?
We have, in this world, and certainly in the USA, been living for quite some time in a state of division where people are separate from and sometimes afraid of each other, often becoming strangers with our neighbors and families and even parts of ourselves! Certainly experiencing this sense of being divided or split apart is very apparent within so many of us. Within our own beings we have often stopped hearing ourselves. We may have a difficult time in knowing who we are and what we want.
Often times painful experiences have caused us to separate so many parts within us that we tend to become conflicted in our hearts and souls. This comes back to us in our daily lives through our work, relationships, finances, families, health, daily schedules and ability to simply find a quiet place within. It also comes back to us in the state of world affairs. We all experience these things in varying degrees, but until the collective community is well, we each have work to do within ourselves.
We have become very good at being separate and divided as a culture. As communities, we have learned to operate very independently of each other. While this has been part of a process in evolution that needed to happen, we as a culture have gone too far and at great cost to our planet, our societies, our bodies, minds and our souls. While it is a normal process in evolution to swing back and forth on a pendulum, ever seeking the balance point, it is now time to become more conscious of doing this so we can find a fresh equilibrium and honor the having of a whole journey.
Part of the light side of this great division that has been happening is we have worked on refining the ability to focus in on ourselves and can more and more often march to the beat of our own music and create our own patterns in the fabric of life. While that is wonderful, what happens when it is time to create together? Are we able to step in and learn a vision together and each do our part to fulfill a larger pattern? Something has been missing here for some time and all across the world we see signs of the discontent, the warps, the diseases of mind, body and soul that come when we cut ourselves off from the unity that is part of our journey together here on Earth.
In the USA, under the political administration that is now passing out of power, we have been separated one from anther (through fear, the financial situations and much more) and our unique point of view has rarely been honored. Look how polarized the USA became! People either agreed or disagreed, there was very little middle ground! Clearly this was a reflection of the conflict within the American people, of the pain of turning against our own dreams and our own paths more often than not.
Now we have new leadership that wants to consider all points of view and allow us each the opportunity to consider many more points of view than our own! Imagine a leader, or anyone ( like ourselves!) for that matter, who can say, "I know you disagree with all I want to do right now, that's OK, but I want to know why you disagree, and what you perceive and what you'd like to see happen and why you want that." That is a mature perspective. Can we learn to have that with each other and within ourselves? Can we peacefully say hello to the conflicts and begin to create enough communication for resolution to occur? This is the message of 2009- Unity in our communities, our worlds, and greatest of all, unity within ourselves!
It is a huge boon that we have a new opportunity, and it is a direct result of the work you and other spiritual people like you have been doing with great perseverance for quite some time now. Pat yourself on the back! You've been doing a tremendous job planting the seeds of a new dream! So now what? We have gotten very good at being separate and independent, so how do we unify?
Let's consider that this is like weaving fabric. The threads start in us, but then to unify and actually make fabric and not just have a lone string of thread, we weave our thread into the world and with the threads of others. It comes back to us, then goes back into the world and together we have the opportunity to create a pattern of great strength and beauty. Each of us has a chance to spin our own beloved thread and then to weave a high vibration into the fabric we co-create with others.
But what happens if we forget an important step, my second key word in the message here, which is communication. We have been experiencing quite a bit of what happens when we each go about weaving our own patterns and we don’t confer with each other in our families, work places, schools, community projects, churches, social groups, etc. about what the pattern should look like so that it works for everyone, so that it allows us each our unique self and at the same time unifies us as a people and strengthens us inwardly and in the world.
To weave into unity we of course must delve into the inner world of ourselves and find that unity within. I invite you to try an exercise here. First would you spend one minute criticizing yourself and your life. Yes, just do it!
Notice is this familiar?
How does your body and heart feel when you do this?
What is your vision of life as you do this?
Now spend one minute telling yourself wonderful things about you and your journey and then see how that feels and looks. You can do the same exercise with your life, spend one minute thinking and imaging critically toward your work, family, relationship, organizations you work with, etc, and then do the same for one minute but with great gratitude and validation for it all. What do you notice?
Maybe you are one who is able to stay out of that critical and divisive point of view, but you live in a world with many who don’t, and as such, we need to understand this and work together for the sake of our divinity.
You can see here how different these two ways of operating are. One divides us and the other unifies us. Now is the time to find the old and painful images, patterns and programs in our beings that have kept us in conflict and in a divided state. There are so many old patterns of pain: “No one believes in me”, “No one really supports me”, “I have to do it all myself”, “ I am not good enough for this”, “These people are all idiots”, “It will never work”, “People don’t see or hear me”…oh it goes on and on.
There is no time left to dwell in these old patterns. It is time to release them, to let them go, to learn to trust, to give our support to ourselves and to each other! It is also important that we process anything we are stuck on or we will use the old pain to construct our new images of false unity and project them onto others and merely create more pain. Whatever your tools for processing and healing are, use them at full force and if you don’t have any, for heavens sakes, it is time for some!
There are those who in their pain would rather stay very separate and not hear the ideas and values of those around them, and instead of weaving a beautiful fabric together, they will tear the fabric of our communities apart by being selfish and divisionary, albeit unconsciously. It is time to be patient with them, and teach them a new way to awaken from the isolation that has had them bound in never seeing the big pattern and the kindness it takes to work together to achieve wellness. These people want to go home as much as the next person, they simply think that by separating more, they will get there faster; which we know is simply not true!
I am not saying that you should allow them to hurt your creations, but we do need to consider what they reflect of the common state of division and pain. So let’s pray for them and educate them with love. Let’s support them to seek to heal themselves, as we do the same for ourselves, so we can join our many streams into a huge and strong river moving with vitality and clarity towards the great sea.
It is now time for each of us to begin a deeper level of commitment to creating communication within ourselves and within our world. It is not a time to run about in our old patterns, too busy to communicate with each other and create a beautiful and healthy world together. Perhaps we can each look at the depth of our commitment. If it was possible for it to be like water and be ten-leagues deep, how deep are you going and how much deeper do you need to go? Take a plunge right now and go just a little deeper.
A great step now is to step back and consider what pattern best suits the family, business, relationship, community, school or whatever organization we are working with and not the pattern we each like best. We have had enough of a contest of wills. It is not time for each of us to be so individual that we can’t harmonize with each other. Just think how the music in an orchestra would sound if everyone played only their own song! Yes, it important that we be good with our own instruments and take the time to hone our skills, but more than ever we need to establish functional patterns and musical compositions that allow each person to be whole and to work together in communication to create our communities.
Consider the music and the other musicians and in doing this, we create the opportunity to look at and consider the music within us, the pattern of our own inner fabric so that we can enjoy the song and we can weave a pattern of inner light and awareness that allows us to be fulfilled in our journey this life time.
It is time to consider;
“How can I best operate as part of the whole?"
"What can I contribute?"
"Am I listening to the people around me?"
"Are they communicating where they are and what threads they need for the pattern to come out?"
"Are we aware of working on a pattern of wholeness together or are we all creating something diverse and disconnected?"
"How can I create clear imagery and bright radiance within me so that I can be aware of the patterns of wholeness within and communicate with the community of my choice so that wellness, harmony and clarity occur?"
"How do we each support ourselves and each other in a fresh, radiant & well considered vision of life?"
Hey, we all know what disconnected feels like within ourselves and within our culture, we have that experience, so now we have this huge window to learn more about connectedness!
Together we can weave a pattern that allows both personal and community enrichment: we can open a door that allows light to enter into us all.
Take a moment and allow yourself to notice the Great Sprit and the Divine Mother loving you, the heavenly child. They are holding you in the vibration of grace. Your own vision of unity with your divine parents will empower you in the year to come as you do great works within your self and within the reflective world around you.
I congratulate you on all you the wonders you have accomplished for us all, to get us here. I welcome you to work with us or to continue the path that does work for you so that we can all find the space to be fluid, joyous and healthy both alone and together.
May you each find the glory of the song that fills you with freedom, & Together may we all play music, weaving a thread of light from each of us that feeds the greater patterns of the soul and brings us all united in creative enthusiasm,
With Tremendous Respect, Aloha & The Blessings of the Great Spirit,
Rev. Lisa French
Executive Director
Magic Isle/Hale Ola Pono
