Across the United States and around the World Dec 14, 2012 we had a Shift in Focus

As we are awaking on the East Coast of the United States on this morning December 15, 2012, many of us have had a "shift in focus". Across the country and around the world perhaps, this day we have had a "shift in focus". A shift of disbelief, horror and an out pouring of love and support for families and community of Newtown Connecticut. A community where every single life is now, Forever changed, innocence gone, hearts filled with pain and anguish. Now the most difficult task upon those families, of laying those children and adults to rest. The realization sets in, they will see them their loved ones no more.
Many awaited hoping for news of survivors, a glimmer of hope on such a dark day. The news never came. The doctors waited for what was expected to be 50 or more. They never came. Now the families and community left with unanswered questions and grief so deep, the heart feels like it will ache and cry forever.
Today, a new day, as many around the world still watching, we must ask ourselves perhaps the most important questions. What do we do now and how do we stop, these heart wrenching, unexplainable events from happening again. That question we do not have the answer to, yet, but we have to start somewhere.
As I watched the special report last night with Diane Sawyer, my youngest son, who is a sophomore at college came into the living room and said. "Mom are you going to watch that all night? Why are you watching that? You know what you focus on brings more of that, is that what you want?" WOW! He has been one of my greatest teachers.
We are in a time of almost instant news. Horrible scenes of tragedies, perhaps too much information, to many details, step by step coverage of what happened.
The question we are all asking today is, how do we stop these tragic events from happening in the future. The answer is not straight forward or an easy one. The answer lies in many answers and many questions. Perhaps it is time as a country to look at our past, to shift the future.
The United States of America has been involved in more wars and causalities than all any other country around the world. Our society, our corporate world and our politicians focus on profit and not what is always best for the country. The prisons, who's capacities are overflowing, while at the same time rolling in profits! Crime is a big money maker in the US, with over 80% of the prisons privately owned, with money rolling in from the Government to pay for each prisoner incarcerated. Providing cable tv, steak dinners and medical care that so many Americans around the country go without. After all it's "their" rights as an American to have all these benefits while behind bars. While the politicians in Washington have held this country hostage for the last 4 years, throwing stones at each other, rather than fixing the problems. Perhaps we must begin our search for answers there. This country is broken and crumbling. It is time we realize, we are waiting for those who broke it to fix it. Einstein asked what the definition of insanity was, doing the same thing and expecting a different out come....hum. We have been lulled to sleep. Our Government controlling us with fear. The time to awaken is now.
We must do something differently. It is the only answer. We must do a many things differently to see change happen.
Gandhi said, be the change you want to see. Now we must question, what is it we want to see. Many of course answer "world peace" yet in their homes and their heads a daily inner battle is taking place. In many of our neighborhoods, a separation, people scurrying into their homes each night, with often no communication with the neighbors for weeks or months. Many not even knowing who their neighbors are. They say it takes a village to raise a child, yet in America families are shattered and often there is little community support.
The focus must now turn to one of Peace. One of harmony. One of Love. One of Community.
In the coming days as the 20 beautiful kindergartners of Sandy Hook Elementary school and the 8 adults are laid to eternal rest, we have much to think about as individuals, communities and a Nation.
Let us be guided by the highest good. Let us make a vow to reach out. Let us make a vow to finding ways and teaching our children inner peace. Let us teach our children how to communicate, to be open.
Let us focus on shifting the balance, the balance of fear and violence to one of peace and harmony. Let us remember and remind our political figures of what is really important in life. Let us speak softly, yet have a strong impact, raising our country and the world into a place of the peace we long for.
May a blanket of peace surround all the families affected by this tragedy and may our Nation be brought together in a way like we have never seen before. Committed to being a more peaceful, loving country.
With deepest Condolences and Heartfelt Love
Cynthia

Shift in focus 2012: Holding the Vision and Intention for a world to wo...

Shift in focus 2012: Holding the Vision and Intention for a world to wo...: The Tenth Insight....Holding the Vision The Tenth Insight is the realization that throughout history human beings have been unconsciousl...

Holding the Vision and Intention for a world to work Together

The Tenth Insight....Holding the Vision

The Tenth Insight is the realization that throughout history human beings have been unconsciously struggling to implement this lived spirituality on Earth. Each of us comes here on assignment, and as we pull this understanding into consciousness, we can remember a fuller birth vision of what we wanted to accomplish with our lives. Further we can remember a common world vision of how we will all work together to create a new spiritual culture. We know that our challenge is to hold this vision with intention and prayer everyday.

The Death Card

Rebirth

As 2012 is rapidly coming to a close and 2013 just around the corner, bringing with it new and exciting possibilities. Holding the vision for the world as we transform into higher levels of understanding. That being said, there are always to side to the coin, which side have you chosen in the past? Are you ready to embrace the goodness around you? Are you ready to for a Rebirth? 

Our struggle with letting go of old stuff can be very intimidating for most people. Whether it is physical stuff, emotional stuff or with a relationship that has gone past its “expiration date”. 

As all the major systems in America and around the world are failing, we can choose to despair, or we can embrace letting go of the old and gracefully allow our transformation to take place. Bringing with it the dawning of a new day, new possibilities or ideas we perhaps would not have explored. 

Congress is a perfect example of holding to the old, when as a country, the “Old” is no longer serving us as a whole. Looking at how we got here is important, so we can change direction and release what doesn’t work any more. The problem can not be fixed by the continuing to use the same old concepts. This applies to our personal life as well. 

A very fitting quote from Joseph Campbell, author of A Hero with A Thousand Faces. “The familiar life horizon has been outgrown; the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.”

Many of us have been on a spiritual journey for many years, others are just beginning.

No matter where you are on your path, you have the freedom of choice at any time to become more conscious. You have the freedom to change your thoughts, beliefs,or even diet, right now, for the betterment of yourself and the global good. 

You have the power to release the familiar, possibly unhealthy self, to welcome and invite the change in, Now.

Show up as your best self in the game of life. 

This last year has been one of challenge for many of us, with the last few months being very intense. I myself as many have been facing my past, going through a life review. Seeing perhaps where I have been hurt or hurt others. Forgiving them and my self. This has been a time of deep inner work for me, and I haven’t always liked what I see. I know to glide into a more aware and promising future, it is best for me to be awake and present, rather than holding onto the past or things that just don’t work any more. 

The time has come that we who hold the torch for the future, must hold it high for all to see. Those who are able to see the torch will follow and perhaps light their own. Those who don’t will continue on the road of desolation, spinning on the hamster wheel of life. 

We have chosen this time to be here on this planet. Many of us a torch bearers. Shine your torch now!

Cynthia Fontaine

A Critical Mass

1st Insight Critical Mass

10 of Swords

This is from an assignment from my Mentor, Teacher and Currendera Althea Gray(www.altheagray.com). The assignment was to take the First Insight from the Celestine Prophecy and a tarot card she pick for me. My card was the 10 of swords. 

This was my insight:

  THE FIRST INSIGHT . . . A CRITICAL MASS

A new spiritual awakening is occurring in human culture, an awakening brought about by a critical mass of individuals who experience their lives as a spiritual unfolding, a journey in which we are led forward by mysterious coincidences.

Reflecting further on the 1st insight and what it means to me through the 10 of swords, as I listened to the other cards others were getting, the feeling of “why do I always get the worst card” why does everyone else get the “good” cards! Talk about feeling like the world is picking on me. 

Martyr....

Though I have been through an awful lot, I still somehow keep going and keep going to take what I have been through and hopefully inspire others. 

Also, I have had to be tough since I was a kid, to mentally and spiritually survive! So of course 1 sword wouldn’t kill me, try 10!! This brings back a memory of when I was in High School. I grew up in a neighborhood of all boys. So, if I wanted to play I had to play with the boys. Well we used to play tackle football and I would never let a boy beat me! I held the record of 11 guys on me to finally take me down and tackle me! None of them could believe it. I was a legend! So 1 sword? Ha! 

As we are entering a new and exciting time on planet Earth, the "Critical Mass" is being to awaken. Despite or perhaps because of the "Swords" in our backs. We now have the power to choose to stay on the ground defeated, with the swords of life in our back, or we can get up, knowing even 100 swords won't keep you down. Every part of your journey is a spiritual unfolding, the stress, the blessings, the fear, the joy, all of it. Embrace it all! Look for the gifts in them. Let spirit guide you to the wonderful, mysterious coincidences in your life. They may bring you to a place of such wonder, you may have never reached otherwise.

Wishing for you a Blessed Holiday Season

Cynthia

Shift in focus 2012: Learning from Nature

Shift in focus 2012: Learning from Nature: Today I had the one of the most interesting moments of enlightenment...from 2 Ants. Yes, you read that correctly 2 Ants! I was observing 2 a...

Learning from Nature

Today I had the one of the most interesting moments of enlightenment...from 2 Ants. Yes, you read that correctly 2 Ants! I was observing 2 ants that happen to be on my bathroom wall, they both seemed on some sort of mission. As one was traveling up the wall, the other down, I waited to see if they would somehow communicate with each other as they approach the other more closely. The 2 collided. One sped up it's pace immediately after the collision and now seemed to be running in the same direction it originally was traveling in. The other stopped moving completely for at least 5 seconds, before turning in the opposite direction of which it had been traveling and now seemed disoriented, going in circles. It took what seemed like over 2 minutes for it to get back on course.
At that moment of observation I had an epiphany. How many of us are heading in one direction and encounter a road block, most likely all of us, and do exactly what the ant who went in circles did? The lesson from the ants is, now that you have encountered the road block what do you do next. Both chose differently. One ant now running(if ants run) continuing faster in the same direction with not a second of hesitation. The other stopped completely, seemingly stunned. Then couldn't seem to find a direction.
It is so easy for us to become distracted or get dis-railed from our focus. Sometimes that pause and change of direction is a positive thing. Even going in circles before you get back on track can serve a purpose, as long as you chose to get moving again. When we continue to allow the distractions to dictate our life, to send us in constant circles, we are unable to gain the forward momentum allowing us to do the things we want in this lifetime. The things that really matter.
Remember, YOU are the writer of your life story.
By choosing to create you life by living in the now.

The Shift of Power

Ahhh....here we are just 2 and 1/2 short months from December 2012. The shifting is very much underway. We are seeing it around the world. This is a time for us to awaken and embrace our true self. Very often hidden by drama, alcohol, over eating, working all hours of the day or night and never allowing that true loving soul, that you came here with, to be seen and experienced.
So many at this time say they feel "abandoned" or alone. We have never been abandoned or alone. Very often it is because each has chosen to abandon that small child, who was hurt in some way, by the adults around them. We move forward in our lives growing up and as adults with that little child still somehow locked inside, just wanting to be loved.
When you can embrace this little one and just love them, let them know you will never abandon them or leave them again. Bringing back together this part of your soul, will allow you to begin to heal and become whole once again.
We are now in the 5th dimension and all who are on the earth at this time are feeling the energy's of the 5th dimension.
The ease of your transition will be based on your ability to embrace the changes. We often allow ourselves to be stuck in a group, whether religious, work, or friends that no longer serves us, out of fear of abandonment. As we relax and allow with ease the changes to come, your life will become more in balance. When you are allowing, embracing yourself and are in balance, others will notice and begin to ask, noticing a difference in you.
If you have a pattern in your life, that continues to show up, notice the pattern. Notice at the moment what triggers these patterns. Ask what is my understanding belief?
We can do this, together, and come out on the other side in a much better mental, emotional and spiritual place
Cynthia Fontaine
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