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27<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

February 2025<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Consciousness
Happiness
Vibrational Frequency<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Learning To Be Astonished<\/h1>

by Rachelle Rogers<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n

I\u2019ve now been living in Longmont CO for over three and half months, and I must admit that, much sooner than I could have imagined, I came to the point where I no longer looked back. I can\u2019t say that Colorado now feels like home, although it does feel like the absolute right place for me to be. The idea of \u201chome\u201d has become more difficult to define lately. \u201cHome\u201d has become more of an inside feeling, undefined by geography. And yet, where I am now seems to be the perfect outward reflection of this more expansive inner space.<\/p>\n

I call Colorado the Land of Big Sky. Sky is important to me. The unexpected shapes of clouds, surreal hues of sunset, the miracle of wings thrill and inspire me, remind me of the grandness of creation. I feel different since I\u2019ve moved here, like I\u2019m becoming more, stepping into a more spacious inner reality. And at the same time, even though my focus is always on the larger perspective, I too often struggle to stay above the fray of the heart-wrenching, surreal, seeming insanity playing out in the so called world.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Joy, beautiful divine spark! This kiss for the whole world.<\/em> <\/span>Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony
From the Frise Beethoven de Klimt, designed by Gustav Klimt for the fifteenth exhibition of the Pavillon de la S\u00e9cession \u2013 Vienna 1902
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I have to continually remind myself that as human beings and as a planet we are heading into something completely new and uncharted, and that the old control, manipulation, and destruction might flail for a while, but will<\/em> fall apart in order to make way for what\u2019s coming. I do not believe we are in yet another repetitive cycle that will play out as it has for eons. I believe that from the larger perspective what\u2019s happening is part of something that\u2019s never happened before, a grand evolution of consciousness in which we will come to know how we came to be here on this tiny planet in the middle of a galaxy in the corner of a universe in the vastness of infinity. We will come to remember who we truly are. Although you will not hear this news in any traditional media coverage, there are millions of awakening souls all over the planet who are already feeling the truth of what\u2019s unfolding.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile as the drama plays out in the lower vibrational world of fear, duality, separation, greed, we each have our journeys to take, and choices to make. One thing I\u2019ve come to realize is that nothing \u201cout there\u201d is certain. For me, the only certainty, the only truth, is what I feel in my heart. And that is the place from which I create. From that space, anything is possible.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Koho Shoda Moonlit Sea<\/em> 1920<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Others may be called to take action in the physical world, to peacefully protest, to speak out to those who think they are in power, to dig deep and discover their own inner strength. My grandest advice to the courageous souls who choose that path is \u2014 stay strong, go high, and focus on what you\u2019re for<\/em>, not what you\u2019re against<\/em>. We get what we focus upon, whether we want it or not. As Al Einstein has said: Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.<\/em><\/p>\n

As far as those who choose the low path of violence, there is nothing I or anyone else of like mind could say to them that they would hear. The most we can do is to aim our creative intention in a much more expansive direction.<\/p>\n

As for me, my commitment at this time is an inner commitment to live from the best of my self, to hold the highest vibration I can offer at any given moment. It takes constant vigilance, gently checking in with myself several times a day to see where I\u2019m vibrating. If I\u2019m on a downward slide, I\u2019ve learned that the most important thing to do before anything else is to feel whatever I\u2019m feeling. To embrace and honor those feelings without self-judgement, and, without attaching to them any story. It\u2019s just about feeling the emotions in order to move through them. The next thing I do is make another choice, one that comes from the Big Heart.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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To understand what it means to be doing inner work, one must understand that vibrational frequency matters. Fear is one of the lowest if not the<\/em> lowest frequency energetically on the planet. Love, unconditional love, on the other hand, is the highest. And it expands exponentially. It is the vibration from which we can send Light, Love, Peace, Compassion into the \u201cfield,\u201d the energy field, thereby creating new choices for those beginning to awaken. It is the realm of unlimited possibility.<\/p>\n

Holding these higher frequencies is not focused upon wanting to change anyone. No one can change another. But putting the vibration of unconditional love into the field creates possibility that wasn\u2019t there before. Perhaps a new idea comes to someone\u2019s mind. Perhaps someone starts asking the big questions like Who am I and why am I here?<\/em> Perhaps people become tired of fighting, criticizing, manipulating.<\/p>\n

There are \"tools\" I use to help me raise my vibration. I\u2019ve learned that the quickest way to move into heart coherence is to think of something that makes me smile or laugh or tear up in a good way, something clever or amusing, something of great beauty, something that I love. One of the most fun things I\u2019ve done is to put together my ongoing Get Happy Files, which contain images, videos, music, art, words, photographs of things I collect that bring me easily into the heart.<\/p>\n

All images in this post are from my Get Happy Files. And here are a few favorite videos that inspire in me laughter, joy, wonder no matter how often I watch them:<\/p>\n

Music: 1981 - AMAZING toddler knows all the classical COMPOSERS
https:\/\/youtu.be\/tGWI6E-zilI?si=TEYmEdgTAECKov22<\/a><\/p>\n

Dance: White Nights<\/em> film duet Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines
https:\/\/youtu.be\/YrpkiuXg1DI?si=Fe773YVjsj04vi1x<\/a><\/p>\n

Video: Henri Le Chat Noir<\/em> library of videos. Henri died at 17 in 2020. Video 6: Cat Litt\u00e9rature
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Here are a couple of memories from 2009 of my own kitty Michou who is no longer with me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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