Rita Rivera Fox
LIFF Mastery- Laughter Is For Free
- October 23, 2008
From the creative mind of Dreamer Sylvia Madrigal, comes this idea for how to roll with the changes.
Let’s start a grass roots movement, Laugher Is For Free, LIFF Mastery!
Each of us commits to committing a LIFF act every day, once a week, once a month, or whenever.
A LIFF act has 2 criteria:
1. It must be absolutely free (it does not cost anything to execute)
2. It must bring joy to yourself to another, to the earth, to an animal, to the deceased, to any being we choose.
That’s it. We can create LIFF nights when we gather in our communities for people to talk about their LIFF acts or create them on the spot; or they can blog about it on the LIFF Mastery (Life Mastery Programs) site. We can have performances in which people come together to make each other laugh: we can email friends and family and inspire them to commit LIFF acts too.
Let’s make LIFF go viral! If the Empire of Greed is falling, let’s replace it with an empire of laughter.
Because after all Laughter Is For Free… and can be had in absolute abundance.
Please take up Sylvia’s invitation and start the laughter and then email us the results, or comment below. We are also looking for more suggestions on ways to spread the laughter, so send us your ideas on what works.
I Change My Thoughts, I Change the Emotional Quality of My World
- May 04, 2008
Mastering life is the process by which we become aware of how thought and belief have the power to manifest. We can begin practicing self awareness by observing the thoughts and beliefs that we are using to create the interpretation of what the world brings us. After all, thoughts and beliefs are the raw material we use to craft our daily experience of life. While a thought is not real and it does not have substance, it is still very powerful. Choosing which thoughts we will continue to support or which thoughts we begin to challenge is the first step in crafting our lives as a masterpiece of art.
As we perceive the world, it might seem as though the world determines how we will interpret what we are experiencing. This is an erroneous belief. By taking responsibility for choosing how you perceive and interpret the world at large is a big step in changing the quality of your life. The power comes from the choice. But how can we begin to exercise this power? Learning to choose a new interpretation of events in your life is where practicing the art of choice becomes most apparent and the rewards are the greatest.
We have accepted many collective agreements about how an experience should be interpreted. All we have to do is look to the media, conversations with co-workers, family or friends, and there are ready-made interpretations of everything that is going on in our lives – with both personal and global events. Opinions are freely shared. Soon we are agreeing with how someone else is seeing an event without ever asking ourselves “Is this how I see this situation? Is there another way to interpret this? Does the way I’m looking at this circumstance contribute to creating happiness and overcoming fear in my life?”
These collectively shared interpretations often come from a very limited and fearful point of view. These days there is much uncertainty in the events of the world - war, hurricanes, rising gas prices. And that uncertainty is creating a lot of fearful stories and reactions. If we respond with fear to what is happening globally, we are not making the best choice on our own behalf. When we create fearful conclusions and stories to what we are presented with, we give this type of energy to our lives. This energy creates the emotional quality that then colors our existence. Our combined fearful responses have the power to manifest the very circumstances that frightens us. The results are that we feel helpless and powerless in a constantly changing world. This is how we lose our happiness.
The power to challenge the interpretation of what our mind says about current events, whether personal or global, comes from exercising the power of choice. First, we use our awareness to see how we are interpreting an event. If the story we choose creates anxiety or distress in the body, or steals our happiness, we can decide to withdraw our agreement and support of it. Consciously choosing our interpretation means that we begin to challenge the old existing points of view. These old points of view usually reflect our lack of faith in the divine order of life or our lack of faith in our own resilience. By making an active choice about how we want to tell our story actually changes the quality of our life experience.
- To re-interrupt simply means to ask yourself a few important questions. In other words, you question that voice of authority in your head.
- What is the story you are telling? How are you interpreting what is happening now (or what had happened before)?
- Can you believe that this is absolutely true?
- How does it make you feel?
- What if you don’t believe your interpretation? How do you feel then?
Taking a few moments to become aware of what is going on in the internal dialogue in our minds, and then questioning that dialogue to see if a new choice or interpretation is possible, results in shifting our awareness. The simple action of consistently observing the process of thinking will begin to transform the way we think. This then results in a new experience, or sensation in our bodies – potentially one of more peace, joy, and happiness.
Emotions that enhance our experience of life come from our truest, most authentic self. This is the part of us that is accessed when we rely less on thought and more on feeling. Love, or the experience of being one with what created us, results in an enhanced emotional experience of life. We are interacting with that force all the time. What brings us our greatest happiness is our allowing that love to have a clear channel to flow out of us and into the world that we are creating. This is only possible when we challenge our fearful stories and choose to not believe everything we think. While we may not have control over the events occurring in the outer world, we certainly do have the ability to choose our response to it with awareness.
The Sacred Gift of Planet Earth
- May 01, 2008
Many prophecies exist within the native and sacred traditions of the world relating to this time in the evolutionary process of mankind. These prophecies are a call to get our attention and awaken us to the challenge of what we are creating with our dreaming minds. The Ancient Toltec’s and their teaching’s spoke to this transformative time as one when it is possible to awaken to our true spiritual origins, to live from a place of power, reflecting the infinite spirit of Creator and restoring a sacred relationship with all that is living.
We look around at what our species is creating on this planet and witness the consequences of centuries of living without awareness and respect for the living essence of our home planet, but in actuality the manner in which humans treat the earth simply reflects the way we regard our human bodies - the homes of our spirit. The programmed mind, or the old fear based structure of beliefs is being challenged as we become aware of the call to healing. We are beginning to see that we can not proceed in the same way as we have for so long and it is our very way of thinking and interpreting that is in need of transformation. It is clear that our thinking mind has taken the reins and made reason and the realm of the intellect the focus of what is important to us as a species, resulting in a disregard for our feeling nature or what the heart is conveying. We have become dissociated from our bodies, and consequently the body of earth that sustains our lives.
There is an old myth about a kingdom that has fallen under siege of dark forces. The rightful King has been exiled by the illegitimate King, who has claimed the land and the people as his by force and used them to do his corrupt bidding. Under the illegitimate King’s rein, the kingdom has become impoverished and depleted of its wealth. All efforts of the king’s men and all of the money in the coffers have been directed toward warfare, while the health and well-being of the citizens is sacrificed in this drive to conquer. Then a miracle occurs. The true King is freed from his captivity. He returns to his kingdom, overthrows the evil ruler, and begins to restore and regenerate the abused populace and their lands. A new day of revival and celebration arrives and the people rejoice and demonstrate the love and respect they have for this brave and benevolent leader who overcame the tyranny of the wrongful King.
It is easy to first relate this story to what is going on in the world from a political and ecological point of view but I want to draw the parallel much, much closer to home - to the relationship you are experiencing between your intellect and the feeling aspect of you - your heart, residing in your body and being the center of feeling and sensation. For it is really not so different.
The wrongful king in this little story is where you have come from, the tyranny of the mind and all its distorted concepts and values… a dream of an old structure where power is misdirected and the true power of love and integrity have been exiled. And then something happens. An awakening, in which you know for certain, from the core of your being that you were put on this earth for something much greater and you no longer are willing to abide this ache in your heart, or the powerlessness you feel inside, or the hollow feeling that you just can’t endure anymore. Your heart slowly awakens to the call of the possibility of discovering itself and its inherent integrity. You may have noticed there is an increased desire to interact from the core of your being and have that level of authentic connection with others. As the desires are ignited, the search begins. The search within for your own integrity, living exiled in your heart while the old ruler of thought, judgment and opinion directed your life. This questioning of your life and its meaning then may lead you to question the choices you have made in the past. And it is here in this process of questioning and seeking new answers that the road home to your heart and the balance you are seeking makes itself known.
This myth of the two Kings now becomes a metaphor for the impetus to seek within yourself the end of mental tyranny and the opening to seek the balance of what comes from the heart’s desire to live in peace, love and beauty. The desire to create a better world, begins with becoming aware of the quality of relationship you are having with your own physical being. Just as the body is the divine matter that houses your soul, the planet houses the soul of mankind. As you embody self respect, self acceptance, and willingness to allow the expression of feeling sensations in your body without judgment, your relationship first with yourself transforms and then extends to all living things.
The awakening that the prophecies say is possible during this time can be best stated as the awakening to Life. In this process we become aware of what thoughts and beliefs and their consequences have wrought not only upon the earth but also within our own human matter – the physical body. To awaken really means, in action, that we respect all living things as divine emanations made into form and that light is the basic building block of all living things including our bodies. So because all matter is made of light,
we are essentially connected by the same force, makes all living things connected as one.
It is an exciting time to be alive! A time filled with the potential for a renewed sense of responsibility for what we are creating with the collective human mind as we live on this sacred planet. The opportunity to become aware of the power of our thoughts and beliefs in manifesting the quality of our lives and the quality of the health of our beloved home. We have the choice to awaken and create from our true essence, which is love or to continue down the path of living the effects of our dream of fear. We can have an effect on the healing of planet earth. Restoring harmony and balance in the world begins within the heart of each individual.
The Art of Awakening Awareness
- April 16, 2008
The ancient Toltecs were Master Dreamers. They knew that they were dreaming all the time even when they were awake. They understood that the function of the mind is to dream and that this dream is not real it is only an interpretation of life. The world of form that they saw with their eyes was only one way of perceiving life and there were many other worlds or dreams that were possible to experience in what was not visible with the eyes.
Living in their ancient pyramid city of Teotihuacan in the heart of Mexico, the Toltecs communed with the source of life by going into silent dreaming states deep within their bodies. From this point of perception, they learned that the mind projects images that come from a collective “program” and all humans were programmed the same way. This program does not convey, “life as it is” but rather places conditions, judgments and fear onto life. The humans believed their program was real and began to dream a dream of fear. In other words they fell asleep, even though their eyes were wide open.
The Toltec Master Dreamers were charged with helping their fellow beings awaken to the erroneous nature of the mind and its beliefs. To awaken inside a dream, meant that the world was not always as it seems. They knew it was possible to wake up in the dream and once again experience the truth of being one with all that is. Today, we also have the opportunity to awaken from the dream and live life with eyes and hearts wide open in a state of awakened awareness.
Many people are called today to embark upon a journey of self discovery, one that it is motivated by the desire to live life from a truer and more authentic place – to awaken to a life filled with more happiness and love and with less reaction and fear. This inner desire to ”wake up” is growing in more and more people as they turn within to discover that the belief system is what creates how you perceive the world and us in it. The desire to live life more fully from the heart creates the need to see what the content of our belief system is. You can only create from your beliefs. The beliefs are the raw material of what you manifest in your life. The process begins by becoming aware of the unreal or false nature of the mind and by seeing what you create when you are not in awareness. You can then recognize how your beliefs determine what you create. When you learn the practice of awareness, you can become a powerful co-creator with Life, no longer empowering beliefs that limit and alter your perception of yourself and your abilities but instead making the choices that reflect your infinite nature.
You are creating in every moment. The magic tool you use for creation is the word: the words that you use with yourself and with other people; the words that you use to describe yourselves and the world around you, and words are what your beliefs are made of. Your power to create is so strong that whatever you believe, what you think and speak, comes true. You can put yourselves to sleep with your words or you can inspire yourselves to come to attention with words. Your thoughts are so powerful they have the potential to manifest in whatever direction you choose. It is interesting to discover that your words and the thoughts they convey originate from the beliefs that are behind them. What are the results of your thoughts? This question is easy to answer by simply looking at your personal life and the dream of mankind as you see what is happening in the world around you.
It might seem as though the world determines how you perceive your experiences. This is an erroneous belief. By taking responsibility for choosing how you perceive and interpret the world at large is the first step in changing the quality of your life. Your power comes from choosing what you will believe about any situation. Awareness of the choice you have in how you interpret anything, allows you to no longer be at the effect of life or a victim to what life brings. How can we begin to exercise this power? Learning to choose a new interpretation of events in your life is where practicing the art of awareness becomes most apparent and the rewards are the greatest. You have accepted many collective agreements about how an experience should be interpreted. All you have to do is look to the media, conversations with co-workers, family or friends, and there are ready-made interpretations of everything that is going on in your lives with both personal and global events. Opinions are freely shared. Soon you are agreeing with how someone else is seeing an event without ever asking yourself, “Is this how I choose to see this situation? Is there another way to interpret this? How does the way I am looking at this circumstance contribute to creating happiness and overcoming fear in my life?”
These collectively shared interpretations often come from a very limited and fearful point of view. These days there is much uncertainty in the events of the world - war, extreme weather, unimaginable acts of violence, and threats to the environment. The uncertainty is activating a lot of fearful beliefs and reactions. If you respond with fear to what is happening globally, you are not making the best choice on your own behalf. When you create fearful conclusions and stories to what life is presenting, you give this type of energy to your lives. You create more of the emotional energy that helps to create these situations. This energy creates the emotional quality that then colors your existence. Your combined fearful responses have the power to manifest the very circumstances that frighten you. The results are that you feel helpless and powerless in a constantly changing world and it can seem like a challenge to bring positive change forward in your life.
The power to challenge the interpretation of what your mind says about current events, whether personal or global, comes from exercising the power of choice. First, use your awareness to see how you are interpreting an event. If your story creates anxiety or distress in the body, victimizes you, or steals your happiness, you can decide to challenge that interpretation and change your choice to agree with it or not. Consciously choosing your interpretation means that you begin to challenge the old existing points of view, which then gives you the freedom to consider other ways of looking at the same thing. Shifting your point of view about anything is the process of awakening and expanding awareness. These old points of view usually reflect a lack of faith in the divine order of life or your lack of faith in your own truth. When you make an active choice about what you believe and how you tell the story, the quality of your life experience changes. The more you do this the more you shift the quality of your life attracting more life affirming energy.
You can significantly alter the quality of your life by not only becoming aware of how you interpret global events but by also becoming aware of the beliefs you have about yourself. Everyday we fill our minds with erroneous concepts about ourselves. Often the stories your thoughts create speak of self-rejection and self doubt and drain the joy of living from your hearts. If you believe that you are “less than” someone else or doubt your divine connection, you create a personal reality or dream that reflects this erroneous thinking. The result is you don’t feel so good. Your emotional states are directly related to the thoughts that created them. As you learn to reinterpret your personal stories, you learn to shift the emotions you are creating, and begin to enjoy life as it is, and leave judgment out of your new interpretation.
A shift in your awareness can occur when you take the time to become aware of the internal dialogue in your mind, and then question that dialogue to see if a new choice or another way of looking at the situation is possible. When you do not believe everything you think, you can awaken from a distorted dream, creating an opening to new ways of seeing the world and yourself that can increase the openness of your heart. The simple action of consistently observing the process of thinking will begin to transform the way you perceive. The result of observing will be a new experience, or sensation in your body – potentially one of more peace, joy, and happiness.
Emotions that enhance your experience of life come from your integrity. This is the part of you that is accessed when you rely less on thought and more on feeling. Love, or the experience of being one with what created you, results in an enhanced emotional experience of life. You are interacting with that force all the time. What brings the greatest happiness is allowing life a clear channel to flow through you and out into world, expressing your self as the unique individual that you are. This is only possible when you challenge your fearful and self limiting beliefs and choose to not believe everything you think. While you may not have control over the events occurring in the outer world, you certainly do have the ability to choose your response to it with awareness. What beliefs do you choose to create your life with? What is the emotional quality you choose to bring to your life? Asking these questions can awaken new awareness within you and expand your experience of yourself as a conscious co-creator with Life.
What Choice Now
- April 03, 2008
The energy you are receiving as you move through the process of manifesting your heart’s desire and creating your new dream is occurring on every level of matter from the cells of your bodies to the mantel of the earth and beyond. At this time this energy is being felt very deeply and vibrating and fluctuating in ways that are certainly getting your attention. This movement is asking you to stay so focused in your bodies and the sensations that are moving through them. It is with these movements that you are creating the energy that is revealing your integrity at deeper and deeper levels. In other words, the more you are willing to feel, the more you will be accessing the energy that is all about breaking down old ways of seeing and doing things and the quicker you are able to correct your alignment to the abundance that is the flow of Life moving through you. Remember it will take you being able to hold higher and higher feeling and energy levels in your body to bring about the transformation inherent in new dreams in both the individual Dream and the collective.This is what we are really in service to, is the bringing of heaven into an experience in matter. This means that no matter how you perceive what is going on with what you are birthing into being, it is important to challenge any familiar perceptions that create fear or self doubt in your body sensation. Become aware of how you are feeling so that peace and pleasure are what you are ultimately creating in your body. Every other sensation that causes discomfort is just an indicator that there are still beliefs and programming that you are now being asked to let go of. The more choices you make on a consistent basis to challenge your programmed beliefs, the more you are causing a deep disturbance within. From this disturbance is the created the movement for old structures to pass through you to be released. This is what must occur in order to enjoy the new energies that your body is being prepped for. Empty the old so the new can root and flourish. The opportunities to choose what you will believe and consequently bringing into manifestation, are everywhere and the consequences are being lived in the moment.
One choice that can be helpful these days as you go about the act of creating new dreams, is to choose “not knowing” which is simply trusting and putting your faith in the energy and emotional quality of what you want to create rather than relying on an explanation from your old programmed mind. Can you choose again to believe in what is not yet in form and keep investing your love for your vision of your self? Part of not needing to know is the willingness to challenge what you think it will all look like, what you will be like in the transformed version of you. As all humanity is now being given the power to re- design the mind of the future, can you continue to take action and place your intention in what is being birthed through you without worrying about the outcome. It is in each moment that we are creating the new dream, the new interpretation, the new transformed version of you by staying aligned with the energy of peace, pleasure and love and those sensations created in the body.
Have you noticed that it seems that when you are experiencing what you don’t want in life and the emotions that are the results, is when you get to really align with what you do want and the feeling quality of that? This is how we are learning and shifting the energy of our experiences, and empowering our ability to choose. So when you choose something that you see later because of the consequences that you don’t want to manifest, choose again with all the power of your heart’s desire because it just wants to create more of itself and is waiting for the green light. Waste no time in judging the former choice, just see that your awareness has improved and the time is now to act in a different way. As you make new choices, and empower the choice with action, and complete confidence, it becomes more possible for more humans to do the same.
Beliefs are what we are actively transforming with these new choices and along with that the present and future of humanity. This is why in actuality your process is not personal at all, and with your awareness you are contributing to the transformation of an old programmed belief system and bringing us all into the potential to dream a New Dream. This is simply humanity in the process of evolving. Isn’t it exciting?
Life is quite fascinating when you remember that you are Dreaming all the time and make your choice from that awareness. Faith is having its way with us. Enjoy the ride!
The Wave of Creation
- March 15, 2008
Perhaps, you have noticed the many opportunities to observe the challenge to humanity’s emerging consciousness. There can be no doubt that we are all being asked to step up, and become more conscious co-creators with Life. It seems the consequences of our actions, as a collective are showing up everywhere and very rapidly, in our health, our relationships, our environment. The call to come awake and take responsibility for our creation has never been more urgent. The evolution of humanity, that means you and me, has geared up in response to the unique opportunity that is presented by this time on our planet.
The evolutionary message that is coded in our DNA is being activated by so many factors now. What we can be assured of is that our preparation for this emergence is unfolding in such perfection that we may fail to see all of what is being offered. Often our experience is one of feeling pushed into a world dream that we may not feel ready for. The speed of the transformation that we are being asked to allow in our lives is just an indication of what is being asked of each us during this dynamic phase of humanity’s development.
Transformation in action means that for something new to be born in us, something must drop away. This dropping away is something that is occurring everyday, as we go about our living of life. We are each being asked to dance with life in this way; releasing, detaching and exercising the power of our awareness to choose how we will respond to what is showing up. Releasing is just part of what each day of living is asking of us. There is not a day that goes by that we are not faced with a choice that either supports the old, limited identity that is the result of outdated beliefs or offers opportunity for a greater part of self to emerge. The opportunity in this act of preparedness is to release what tethers us to old agreements about who we are, who we are not. There is never any accident or randomness to what life brings to us. It all has purpose and it can all be used for learning, in our Earth school, to love all creation even more.
What is dropping away is bigger than any individual story and history; it is an old dream of a divided, powerless, separate self that has kept humans sleeping with their eyes wide open. With each choice we make daily we are either furthering this evolutionary imperative that is flowering now or slowing it down. Drag your feet if you want to but this dynamic evolutionary wave is rolling and we can either surf the crest or get pulled into the undertow. It is all a matter of YOUR choice.
Perhaps, you have come to see the sheer magic in what is showing up in your life everyday. Though it may not be what you consider as “perfect” or how you thought it would look at this particular juncture, it all has grand design and purpose in it. Simply as a doorway of learning to choose another response; one that is born less of a reaction and more of responsibility for what we really are, it exists in perfection. What is showing up in our lives is instructional, teaching us to be a more conscious co -creator of our life. How else do we become truly responsible for our creative powers if they are not exercised and put to the test? A test is only meant to allow the possibility of that which lives at our core, which is really more authentic, to rise to the surface. A conscious creator is not one who always is getting their way with what shows up, but is one who is learning the valuable skill of grace and trust and demonstrating willingness to be aligned with consciousness as it emerges, even if it doesn’t match the picture in our mind.
We can choose to trust that the Source we are co-creating with is imbued with infinite wisdom and insight and is carrying us on this wave of evolutionary energy toward a never previously visited destination. We can not avoid our relationship with the Unknown as the new consciousness of humanity is birthed, we can only choose how graceful we will be in its courtship of us. It is through the allowing of the Unknown to take shape in us that the new consciousness will be birthed into form.
There is only embracing what shows up or complaining and resisting it. If we embrace it we create an energetic that is expansive and less constrictive and then that attracts more of that energy to us. Being afraid of what shows up or thinking there is something wrong with it creates energy in the body that just attracts more of that. We can choose to trust the wisdom of Life and let go and enjoy the ride. Life is just making a better, more flexible co-creator out of us. This is what Life needs to fully manifest the new Consciousness of Humanity that is emerging in our midst. Because we are the ones that are birthing it, we are just undergoing “Mothering/Fathering training to more openly respond and care for our new Creation. We seeded it in our heart’s desire to live a dream of balance,abundance and love on this planet, so now it is up to each of us to grow the seed. We have been called to this level of the creative process together, so extend to your self such gentle gratitude for saying “Yes” to Life and its potential to restore balance and integrity to all living things. Enjoy each day. Maintain an internal balance that you can share with the world. Never lose sight of how valuable each one of us is to creating the dream of the flowering of humanity. And remember you are dreaming.
My love to each of you, in the fullness of our community dream, each of you is held.
Your World in Balance
- March 14, 2008
Understanding emotion - how it is formed, what purpose it serves, what lies within its hidden messages, and most importantly how it directly affects your daily life, is one of the most powerful ways to bring your world into balance. When you open to learning how emotions affect the quality of your life experience, you begin to make new choices that contribute to your happiness and ultimately to that of all humankind. Imagine a day, month, lifetime of deep balance and happiness. Wouldn’t that be the greatest gift to give yourself and your loved ones?
Emotions surprise and delight us, they annoy and agitate us. They cause turmoil and conflict as well as feelings of goodwill and peace. Your own emotional response to situations in your life can baffle you, never mind trying to decipher your acquaintances, friends, and loved ones perplexing feelings and reactions. Yet we are all emotional beings. It’s what humans do - we manufacture emotions all the time. Your brain is designed to perceive sensation and your mind is designed to interpret this information, and the body is designed to feel. How we interpret the information that we perceive is what creates the emotional responses that are felt in the body. Everything that we feel in our bodies, we end up giving out to the world around us. Our emotions create a ripple effect. When you develop your emotional self awareness, you experience the possibility of bringing a sense of balance into your journey of self-discovery.
With the proper tools of perception and awareness, you can learn how to re-interpret your thoughts and emotions, allowing for the full expression of feeling and sensation to be experienced and enter into a new state of personal freedom and well-being. This brings harmony and balance to your self that can be shared with your loved ones.
Life Mastery Programs are devoted to guiding individuals through the process of unlearning patterns of beliefs that have created emotional imbalance and discontent. Opening the potential for learning how emotions effect the quality of your life experience, can ultimately guide and assist you in making new choices that contribute to your happiness and that of all mankind
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