Call upon Your Future Self
You know how sometimes, after you’ve gone through something really rocky, intense or confusing, and it’s all over, you have sudden clarity on the gifts that came out of the experience?
And you think to yourself
“If only I had realized the blessings that would flow, it would not have seemed so hard!”
Here’s the cool thing about that: you can, right now, go back in time to any other moment in your life, and send your Younger Self a bit of love, hope and wisdom. You can whisper “it’s alright. Everything is going to be ok. Keep breathing.”
How is this possible?
Time is just a construct of the mind.
In the Cornucopia Reality, where your Soul, or Essence, lives, there is no such thing as time and space. When you are connecting with your Soul, you can flit around between temporal realities and sprinkle a bit of love here, seek a bit of peace there…it’s all quite fun and magical and a bit like being Tinker Bell…
So, if you happen to be in the middle of a rocky, intense, confusing time right now, you can call upon your Future Self—that part of you who already knows how this all works out, and who has the wisdom to take the long view, and the larger perspective. And you can breathe in that wisdom right here, right now, to guide you and give you peace.
Enjoy playing with your magic time wand! Let me know what you do with it!
And speaking of time, if you happened to have trouble browsing the website for next summer’s Ireland trip when I sent it out last week, we’ve fixed the layout issues that were happening with some browsers. Even if you hadn’t thought of coming with us to the Celtic Soul Experience to western Ireland next year, you might enjoy the lovely music and pictures we have on the site: they will take you to a time out of time!
www.KimberlySchneider.com/trips
And…if you DO want to come to Ireland with us I’ll give you a free updated cottage upgrade or private room upgrade when you enroll by September 30 (while supplies last).
Peace of the Time Beyond Time to you,
kimberly
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Email this postCatch a Falling Star–in Ireland
Last weekend I remembered who I am.
(I tend to forget once in awhile; does that ever happen to you?)
Saturday night, cool breezes called me outside. I spread a blanket on the grass and lay down to gaze up at the sky.
Almost as soon as I looked up, a blazing bright shooting star streaked across my field of vision, as if to welcome me back to nature. And as I relaxed into the ground, I felt the earth envelop and hold me. My consciousness sank back into my body. Once again, I knew my place on this earth.
I remembered a song refrain from one of my favorite movies (Love Actually):
Catch a falling star and
put it in your pocket;
save it for a rainy day.
Catch a falling star and
put it in your pocket;
Never let it fade away.
In other words, be fully present to the bright passing moments of your life. When you show up for them and let yourself feel their enormity, you can “put them in your pocket” and draw upon them again and again.
I know this works because every morning I go back to Ireland’s western shore during my prayer and meditation time—even though my feet are firmly planted in St. Louis.
Facing east, I feel the clean Atlantic air on my face and I breathe in the lavish, luminescent, lusciousness of the rainbow that sprawls across the sky.
Facing south, I feel the sun breaking out of the clouds to warm my face and I look out over thatched cottages and sleepy cows now stirring in the small village on Galway Bay.
Facing west, I stretch my face over the cliffs at Dun Aengus or feel the spray of the sea as I look out over the back of the ferry bringing me home from the Aran Islands.
Facing north I send my consciousness into the ancient limestone of the Burren and I feel the whispers of the ancestors living in my blood and bone.
Facing center I surrender all my ego’s hopes and fears to the wisdom of the Divine Consciousness that moves and breathes in my life.
With Christ before me, behind me, above me, below me, within me and all around me, I begin my day—having awakened that bit of Eire that lives in me.
I love pulling a “shooting star” in the form of Ireland out of my pocket every day—and of course, even more, I love returning in person to replenish my store of land, sea, sky, poetry and music.
I’m going back again next summer, for another Celtic Soul Experience. If you like, you can join me June 23-June 30, 2012 in western Ireland for Dancing on the Edge: Awakening Your Soul’s Call for Expansion.
Bonus: If you register by September 30, 2011, you can choose a free private room OR an upgraded cottage, while supplies last.
If you want to know more, just go to
www.KimberlySchneider.com/trips
I hope to see you in Ireland next summer! Together, we’ll catch lots of falling stars.
Peace of the infinite sky to you,
kimberly
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Empty Nest
Is home feeling a bit lonely with the kids off to college?
Here’s my TV spot from Great Day St. Louis about how to thrive in your empty nest!
http://www.kmov.com/great-day-st-louis/Empty-Nesters-127484638.html
Enjoy and let me know what you are doing to make the most of this time in your life.
Blessings,
kimberly schneider
What Needs to Change Form?
Today is August 1, the first day of the ancient Irish season of Lughnasadh.
Lughnasadh is the season of The Reaper—that harvesting energy that cuts down grain, for instance, so it can be become bread. (In the early Christian church, August 1 became Lammas, or Loaf Mass, a celebration of grain being transformed into bread for the Eucharist).
Why is this relevant now, when so few of us are connected to the agricultural rhythms of our ancestors?
Because we need that transformational energy to help us release what I call “attachment to form.” Form is one of the 5 Illusions, and attachment to form is a huge obstacle to conscious manifestation.
When you are attached to form, you think that in order to be happy, you have to:
§ hold on to what you have
§ go back to the way things used to be OR
§ make sure things turn out a particular way.
This is a recipe for disaster since our egos actually have no control over the details in our lives (have you noticed?)
If we want to be joyful, we need to surrender the ego’s agenda and get on board with the “energy beyond the form,” whether you want to call that energy “God’s Plan,” “the Universe,” your Essential Self, the Holy Spirit (you get the idea).
Paradoxically, when we learn to release attachment to form, we actually begin to manifest many more of the things we’ve wanted all along—and they come in magical, unexpected ways.
So, today, in honor of Lughnasadh, I invite you to ask:
What in my life is ready to change form?
If you don’t know the answer right away, try writing the question out with your dominant hand, and then answering with your non-dominant hand (it sounds crazy, but this simple process often works wonders. You may be surprised by what happens!)
And then, I’d love to hear, in the months to come, what transpires as you release your attachment to old forms and watch with amazement as magic and miracles rush into your life!
Oh, and speaking of Celtic holy days, as I mentioned above, I have been finalizing details for some wonderful Celtic-themed events coming up later this year and in 2012.
Many people have asked if I will be facilitating a workshop in Ireland next year. YES I’ll be going back to Ireland, and I’d love you to join us. I’ll release details and begin accepting applications later this month but for now mark your calendar for June 23-June 30, 2012, Dancing on the Edge: A Celtic Soul Experience in western Ireland.
Plus, I’m working with several non-profit groups to bring world class musicians over from Ireland to the U.S. November 28-December 3rd for a week of Celtic Soul Experience events: Three concerts, an Irish music workshop and a Celtic Spirituality retreat. I’ll have details on that and we’ll begin selling tickets for all the shows and programs by September. Stay tuned!
kimberly schneider
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Listen to the Stars
My friend Jose is always sending me amazing poems, like this one by David Wagoner.
In the Kalihari Desert told the Bushmen
He couldn’t hear the stars
Singing, they didn’t believe him. They looked at him,
Half-smiling. They examined his face
To see whether he was joking
Or deceiving them. Then two of those small men
Who plant nothing, who have almost
Nothing to hunt, who live
On almost nothing, and with no one
But themselves, led him away
From the crackling thorn-scrub fire
And stood with him under the night sky
And listened. One of them whispered,
Do you not hear them now?
And van der Post listened, not wanting
To disbelieve, but had to answer,
No. They walked him slowly
Like a sick man to the small dim
Circle of firelight and told him
They were terribly sorry,
And he felt even sorrier
For himself and blamed his ancestors
For their strange loss of hearing,
Which was his loss now. On some clear nights
When nearby houses have turned off their televisions,
When the traffic dwindles, when through streets
Are between sirens and the jets overhead
Are between crossings, when the wind
Is hanging fire in the fir trees,
And the long-eared owl in the neighboring grove
Between calls is regarding his own darkness,
I look at the stars again as I first did
To school myself in the names of constellations
And remember my first sense of their terrible distance,
I can still hear what I thought
At the edge of silence where the inside jokes
Of my heartbeat, my arterial traffic,
The C above high C of my inner ear, myself
Tunelessly humming, but now I know what they are:
My fair share of the music of the spheres
And clusters of ripening stars,
Of the songs from the throats of the old gods
Still tending even tone-deaf creatures
Through their exiles in the desert.
Wishing you the peace that comes from knowing that the stars are singing to us, whether you can hear them, or not.
Blessings,
kimberly schneider
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Love Is All You Need
I read an insane number of books.
I’m always reading at least one book, and usually I’m working through three or four at a time. So I recommend a lot of them. But once in awhile I read something that seems so powerful, so important, so transformational, that I must tell you about it right away.
I recently finished reading that kind of book.
It’s called Relax into Sex: The Art of Spiritual Lovemaking.
It may seem strange to say that a book about sex is so important. But this isn’t really a book about sex.
At its core, Relax into Sex is a book about consciousness and presence, about becoming more fully alive. And whether or not you are currently in a relationship, you can use the simple concepts in this material to start showing up for your time on earth in a way you never have before.
I recently had the privilege of interviewing the authors of Relax into Sex, Jody Rosen Baron and Peter Beamish, about the concepts in their book. You can listen to the interview by going to the link near the end of the email. And if you want to get a sneak peek of the book, you can read the first chapter at Jody and Peter’s website,
If a critical mass of the people on the planet were incorporating these principles into their lives each day, we’d soon eradicate competition, war, hunger and poverty. How can that be? Listen to the interview and I’ll explain what I mean.
Check it out at: http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WHdpQdjS
or download it to your computer from here:
http://kschneider.audioacrobat.com/download/91c38121-ffb3-271c-47b2-3fcc0f237417.mp3
Enjoy, and let me know what you think!
Peace of a relaxed life to you,
Kimberly Schneider
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Unraveling
Unraveling
Take the knife
that would slice your heart open
and use it to sever
what no longer
serves your destiny.
Don’t let the wall of your security
crush you
as it falls apart.
Dismantle it, consciously,
stone by stone
and be amazed
at what it kept you from seeing.
Open your arms to the storm
and invite the lightning
to ignite your soul
and burn away the rotten remnants
of the false self you’ve been wearing.
Let the waves of emotion
knock you from your feet
and shatter the oxygen tank
on your back
that always left you
wondering
when you would run out of air.
Grab the knife.
Destroy the wall.
Embrace the storm.
Dive into the water.
Stop struggling.
You will not drown.
You will not
drown.
You will only learn
a new way
to breathe.
@2000, 2011 Kimberly V. Schneider
from her forthcoming audio book, Terrible Beauty: Poems and Reflections for Precarious Times
Kimberly Schneider, The Manifestation Maven, empowers disenchanted dreamers to create magic and miracles here and now. She is the author of the forthcoming book Everything You Need Is Right Here (December, 2011, Avalon Emerging Press). Request Kimberly’s free Conscious Manifestation eCourse at www.KimberlySchneider.com or join her Conscious Manifestation community at facebook.com/kimberlyvschneider
When Your House Is on Fire…
What do you do when everything is falling apart?
You can either fight it (and, as Jungian psychologist Marion Woodman says, go down like a pig, kicking and squealing),
or, you can trust the process of disintegration.
So much is falling apart on our planet now: financial institutions, political
systems, notions of right and wrong, even weather patterns!
Not surprisingly, many of us are feeling these ramifications in our personal lives as well.
I wrote a poem about my inner experience of feeling my ways of being fall apart (again!) You can read it at the bottom of this email, if you like. I’ll be including it in the audiobook of poems and reflections I’m creating for precarious times.
Meanwhile, if you feel that you’re living in precarious times, Dr. Samantha St. Julian and I have created a new course called Spiritual Power Tools for 2012 and Beyond: Disruption causing Change creating Potential.
We’re offering fun and new things in this class, including lots of simple yet weirdly effective exercises to allow you to move through changing times with grace and ease…AND a “you choose what to pay” option! Check it out here:
http://synergia.bz/spiritualpowertools/welcome.htm
I hope you’ll join us!
Here’s my new poem. Enjoy!
House on Fire
Your house
is on fire.
Quick—
what will you take
with you
into that new
life,
the one
you hadn’t planned?
The one without
the layers
of meaning
and belief,
carelessly constructed yet
protected
with such
blind
tenacity?
Choose now—
will you keep
your relationships
as you’ve known them?
Your ways of being
in the world?
Will you crawl out
of the house
at last,
gasping for clean air,
having risked it all
for one momento
of the person
you used to be?
Arrogant presumption,
this pretense of choosing.
As if the Soul,
having sought
its ego-erasing crucible
would now empower
your illusions
of control.
Why keep running
back
into the wreckage?
Better to surrender
wholeheartedly.
Let the flames
take it all—even
your blueprint
for life after immolation.
Trust in the miracle
beyond your designing:
The post-surrender peace
that comes
from somehow knowing
amidst the ashes
you’ll find the treasure
that was always hiding
beneath your dross,
waiting for one more fire
to set it free.
©2011, Kimberly V. Schneider
from her forthcoming audiobook,
Terrible Beauty: Poems and Reflections
for Precarious Times
P.S. If you feel like your “house is on fire,” our new Spiritual Power Tools course may be just what you need! Find out more and register at http://synergia.bz/spiritualpowertools/welcome.htm
Raise Your Vibes…
Trying something new on the blog.
Since there are 5 steps to my Cornucopia Method of Manifestation, I’m going to start posting a short comment or something fun related to each step, for the corresponding day of the week, Monday through Friday.
Since today is Thursday, that’s Step 4, Raise your Vibration.
One of my favorite ways to raise my vibration is music, so on Thursday’s I’ll often post clips of some of my favorite songs.
Today is a cloudy day, a bit chilly for early May. We’ve had a LOT of rain this spring. So, to raise my vibration I am looking for something to create a sunshine-y feeling. (Somehow, rain feels different at home than it does in Ireland, where I don’t mind it as much).
I find a lot of cool music on Grey’s Anatomy. I don’t know who picks the music for that show but I’d like to invite her over for a dance party. For now, let’s you and I stop what we are doing for 3 minutes and dance around to this tune, which I discovered on the Grey’s Anatomy episode “New History.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMT-iN4HYxc
Now, don’t you feel great?
Abundant Blessings,
kimberly schneider
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My Favorite Morning Drink (before the Irish Breakfast Tea)…
I get pretty excited about new health finds, especially when they make a difference in how I feel right away!
The third step of my Cornucopia Method of Manifestation is “Befriend Your Body,” because, after all, your body is your first manifestation project. Not only that, but when you become conscious enough to notice your body’s messages about what it needs, you are also becoming sensitive to the energetic vibrations you’re sending out into the Multi-Verse. Shift those, shift your reality. It’s that simple. Many manifestation teachings ignore the body’s role in creating your experience on this earth. Don’t make that mistake. Your body is your Manifestation Matrix.
So, here’s my newest health find: a concoction I’ve made with 4 ingredients you can easily find yourself.
1. 8 oz. of good, clean
water. I used to do bottled water but I’ve gone the filtered tap route in recent years to avoid sending more plastic bottles into the landfills. I like the Wellness Water Carafe, because it re-mineralizes the water as it filters out the impurities. An economical way to get decent water. The link below is a source for the carafe, which also explains how it works (I have no relationship with this site but I like the way they explain the carafe).
http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/wellness-water-carafe.php
2. Trader Joe’s Super Red Drink Powder. I couldn’t believe my luck when I stumbled upon this stuff at Trader Joe’s this week. It’s full of fruits and vegetables, antioxidants, enzymes, probiotics and detoxifying herbs. And yes, I know it is best to get my fruits and veggies from whole foods. I’m making collard greens tonight and I had strawberries this morning. But I also know that modern soil is depleted and I’ll take a boost where I can get it!
Trader Joe’s is an incredible little store filled with happy surprises and unbelievably low prices. I love shopping there. You still need to read labels because once in awhile I stumble upon an ingredient I don’t want in my house, but that’s the exception (and besides, reading labels is a good practice anywhere). To find out if there is a Trader Joe’s near you punch your zip code into their store finder at www.traderjoes.com
3. 1 oz. NingXia Red juice. I generally avoid juices because they spike my blood sugar and don’t have enough nutritional value to make up for that–better to get the nutrients from whole fruit and veggies. I make an exception for this juice, because it is so high in ORAC value (Oxygen Radical Absorpbtion Capacity) and it also contains essential oils that support my liver.
4. 2 drops Citrus Fresh Essential Oil from Young Living. A little extra liver & immune support and creativity enhancement too!
The NingXia Red Juice and Citrus Fresh Oils are available from Young Living Eessential Oils. You may already have a source for these oils, which are the ultimate in quality. I use several of them every day. I’m a distributor too if you want to look at them on my site: www.youngliving.com/kimberlyvs
I feel energized, clear and excited to begin my day after I drink this mix. I follow it with a big healthy breakfast (I try to make that the largest, richest meal of my day) and a cup of Irish Breakfast tea with a splash of cream and a spoonful of cocunut oil.
If you try my concoction, let me know how you like it!
kimberly schneider
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