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Reflections on 2011 and 2012


by Carol Adrienne

 

 2011 was a 4 Universal Year

(2011 = 2 + 0 + 1 + 1 = 4 Universal Year)

The past year of 2011 has brought to our notice world-wide events that seem to match the numerological qualities in the number 2, 0, and 11.

The millennial number 2 will continue to try to teach us the value of cooperation, patience, and peaceful living.

Intellectual Curiosity and Breakthroughs

The 0 of 2011 will continue for many years to highlight various cultural ideals to which our human race can aspire. Spiritual teachings, which may seem to get lost in our materialistic endeavors, remind us that that life on Earth is more than just a physical, mortal existence. While many may not yet be ready for the idea of karma and reincarnation, science has helped us evolve our thinking to recognize the mysteries of the nano world, and genetic patterns. The search for ever smaller particles helps connect us to the invisible world from which our life springs.

Critical Mass and Shifts in Perspective

The 11 of 2011 is a master number called the Iluminator and the Inspirer. It often brings sudden outpourings of activity or emotions. No better event—of an extremely unfortunate nature—could have been found in 2011 than the terrible Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. The 11 literally shook our foundation, not only in Japan and the immediately affected area. The tragedy also illuminated and changed the thinking of governments in other countries as to the potential danger of nuclear energy. The events and the aftermath and the strong spirit of the Japanese survivors inspired everyone in the world. We saw our vulnerability as very real.

Strengthening our Global Network and the Need for Common-sense and Austerity

Since 2011 added up numerologically to the number 4, we saw a strong demand for common-sense and practical decisions. Suddenly a call for austerity and reorganization came from many countries in the Eurozone, such as Greece and Italy. The economy of United States also fell prey to out-of-control spending, bad loans, and crushing debt.

2012 is a 5 Universal Year

(2012 = 2 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 5 Universal Year)

Not an End but a New Beginning with an Avalanche of Change

What might we expect, then, from 2012?

Many people will secretly wonder if--or fear that-- the ancient Mayan predictions of the end of the world will prove true, specifically on December 21, 2012.

Numerologically, 2012 adds up to the number 5—the number most associated with change and the need for adapting to changing conditions.

I don't believe that the world is literally going to end.  However, uncertainty is sure to increase. Government leadership is even now in flux in many countries, including the United States. The spirit of revolution begun in the Arab worlds will continue to flare up in other disenchanted groups of people—especially young people--in such protests as Occupy Wall Street.

The year 2012 is a time to break through complacency and denial.

Increased population (which just hit the 7 billion figure in 2011), dwindling resources, increased consumerism, and on-going conflicts will continue to require our most creative and inspired solutions.

The 5 Universal Year Encourages Adventure, Exploration (Space?), Competition, and Experimentation.
Due to shifts in power and known and unknown environmental stressors, 2012 will likely continue to foster economic volatility and unemployment. Industries and institutions will continue to be forced to confront outmoded beliefs and operating systems.

While the 5 Universal Year calls for increased individualism, progressive ideas, and adaptability, the freedom to bring ideas to market may, ironically, be somewhat limited.  New solutions for drought zones, dwindling energy supplies, hunger, and other environmental issues will come to the fore, but increased corporate and governmental authoritarianism may slow implementation and progress.

Issues of Individual Freedom and Instant Communication

The 5 Universal Year will put personal freedom front and center.  We will begin to wake up to where our personal data is being monitored as we make on-line purchases, use computers, cell-phones, and social media. 

The Internet, despite its capacity to invade our personal freedom, has also come along at exactly the right time to meet our psychological demand for instant info, sharing personal on-the-spot observations, and tuning into what's happening. We don't wait anymore for the morning newspaper.

Picking up the Pace

This is a year to rock and roll and boldly go into unfamiliar territory.  In physics, no energy is wasted. Problems activate the need for better solutions.

During 2012 we may find that more people must migrate in order to flee areas of environmental or climate change or be able to access emerging opportunities for work.

People will invent new services, products, and occupations, and entrepreneurial activity should increase.

As people look for ways of being more self-sufficient and less dependent on a government they no longer respect, they may increasingly decide to raise some of their own food, start community projects, or buy energy efficient vehicles.

Companies will find it expedient to cooperate with unlikely partners, conserve resources, re-invent methods, recycle wherever possible, and work with economies of scale.

Crises will stimulate opportunity and catalyze the development of new methods and techniques. Even now some diseases are responding to gene therapy, and the miracle properties of algae are being studied.

The year 2012 is likely to explode with a quickening of intellectual and technological development that is no longer limited to the developed world. In fact, real innovation is more likely to be found in emerging economies, whereas older economies will be struggling to stay current. Even now farmers in India are checking agricultural prices on their smart phones, and African women are cooking over solar stoves and working to bring clean water to their families.

At this moment, somewhere a genius is being born, and a young woman is starting her own business.




 
Numerology Analysis for Steve Jobs

 

NUMEROLOGY ANALYSIS OF

Steven Paul Jobs( Steve Jobs)

February 24, 1955--October 5, 2011

SUMMARY

The recent death of Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, prompted me to take a look at his numerology chart.

I was not surprised to see the numbers based on his full, original name (given to him by his adoptive parents. His birth parents gave him up for adoption before he was named.)

Steven Paul Jobs ,born February 24, 1955, has both a 1 Birth Path (from his birthday) and a 1 Destiny (from his name.) This perfect match promises a high degree of success in life if the person has the courage, ambition, and mental brilliance to carry out his original ideas.

The number 1 represents the dynamic energy of an original thinker, a leader, pioneer, inventor, and strong-minded person who will not be swayed from his goals. His Birth Path 1 perfectly matched the requirements of his pioneering Destiny 1.

His Zero Challenge, present from age 45 onward ,indicates an Old Soul—someone who has lived many lifetimes and generally is born with a strong sense of direction, urgency, and need to understand life. The Old Soul may have huge obstacles or relatively few.

I made a synopsis of both Steve's original full name and the name he was known by the world—Steve Jobs. Both names fit the description of this unusual, complex, and challenging person who created user-friendly tools for communication, organization, creativity, and education for the masses.

Numerological Description

Steven Paul Jobs

February 24, 1955

 


First Name Steven          22/4  Master Builder/Spiritually Aware

Middle Name Paul             5    Adventurous; Rebellious; Freedom-loving

Last Name Jobs                1   Original, Decisive, Inventive, Competitive


Destiny                          1   Leader Entrepreneurial; Pioneer; Independent

Heart's Desire             11/2  Inspirer, Philosophical, Persuasive, Celebrity

Personality                      8   Executive, Demanding, Controlling, Decisive

Habit Challenge            14/5   Rebellious/freedom-loving; Stubbornness


Karmic lesson                    8  Challenges involving money, power, authority

Karmic lesson                    9  Quest for spiritual knowledge; need to               develop compassion, tolerance, and forgiveness


Birthpath                          1 Born Entrepreneur; Competitive; Original; Pioneer

Realization                        2 Ultimate goal to develop good relationships, learn tactfulness, patience and diplomacy despite a strong urge to be in control (shown by the many 1's in his numbers and the Line of Focus 1 2 3 shown below—the Line indicating someone who must develop original ideas)

TIMING OF HIS 4 PHASES OF ACHIEVEMENT

First Emphasis 8: (from birth to age 35) Need for hard work;  challenge authority;work professionally at early age.

First Challenge 4 (from Birth to age 35) Need to learn to persevere despite challenges or obstacles; need to learn how to focus attention; gain practical expertise


Second Emphasis 8 (from 36 to age 44)  Continues to move toward executive role; business and financial challenges; gain in status

Second Challenge 4 (from 36 to age 44) Continued need for strong foundation, good management; common sense; make ideas a reality despite challenges


Third Emphasis 16/7 (from 45 to age 53) Tests of faith; unexpected setbacks, possible betrayals or disappointments

Third Challenge 0  (from 45 to age 53) Challenges from many levels or no one specific issue; possible spiritual insights or realizations


Fourth Emphasis 4  (from 54 to end of life)  Physical challenges; need for common-sense; stay in touch with practical considerations

Fourth Challenge 0  (from 54 to end of life) Spiritual insights, challenges from many levels

Grid for Steven Paul Jobs (birth name of Steve Jobs)

  

Overview Chart

Line Of Focus 1 2 3 “Line of Talent and Individual Accomplishment.”

Indicates someone who is focused on using originality and ambition to develop a unique talent, vision, idea, service or or product. This is a person who has single-minded purpose, (four 1's,) an interest in esthetic details (two 2's) excellent communication skills (two 3's,) and a grasp of fundamentals ( one 4 and one 7) His three 5's give him versatility, but only as long as it relates to perfecting his ideas. His one 6 shows a desire to provide opinions and advice, as well as a likelihood to be committed to his marriage and family.






 
INQUIRE WITHIN

 


Opening to Inner Wisdom, Spaciousness,

and Infinite Possibilities

Carol Adrienne, Ph.D.

November/December 2010


“What I'm interested in doing is giving people skills so that they can move out of feelings of being limited and into a place where they feel connected to their essential nature and open to possibilities in the present moment.,” life coach Aimee Deem told me on the phone recently.

I've known Aimee, who lives in Davis, California, for about ten years, and am always impressed to hear the latest developments in her life and coaching practice.

Aimee is such a good example of passion, intention and follow-through, with the added challenges of being a full-time mom. This year her daughter, Arielle left for college. Both women, it seems, are flying high.

It’s been a journey for Aimee to get here.

The importance of conscious mothering was apparent to Aimee from an early age. “I remember, as a child, that I constantly wanted my mother to be calmer and less focused on doing so much with so much drama and activity”.

Her Mom was an investigative reporter for a county newspaper, and also had a five minute daily radio show. Her mother’s almost constant state of hyper excitement-and controlling behavior was very uncomfortable for her. “A typical scene in my kitchen in the evening was my mother sitting at the kitchen table nook, watching the news on a small TV that was high on a corner shelf, WHILE listening constantly to CBS ALL NEWS radio (all news ALL the time!) and/or talking on the telephone and either cooking, cleaning or typing a story!”

She recalls, repeatedly, that she would begin to share and want to process an idea or an insight and her mother supported exactly the opposite. Her mother would say “Hurry up and tell me the end." I would begin to talk faster with the false sense of being able to say more and I rarely if ever experienced having ‘the full room to speak’. I would get frustrated and confused I would walk away dizzy and unheard.

This resulted in my becoming stressed, frightened, uncertain about what to do next. My body would be flooded with stress hormones, my prefrontal cortex would shut down and in childhood I frequently defaulted to her and allowed her to make most of my decisions.”

Early Vision of Purpose

A pivotal moment occurred for Aimee at age ten. She remembers telling her parents that she wanted to be a ‘Listener’ when she grew up. “I had a vision that people would pay me $5 or $10 and I would listen to the story of their lives”.

She understood at an early age how important it is for people to be listened to with an open empathetic way of being. “Now I even understand that concept on a deeper level given that studies show retelling a story of a painful memory and having it heard with compassion will actually change and reframe the way our brains store the memory of that story.”

Today as a coach, workshop leader, and resume and professional writer, Aimee is able to support clients hearing themselves on a soul level and moving forward based upon who and where they are in the present moment.

She is compassionate about her own mother’s life experience.

“The truth is that my mother loved us and her family and her life. She was born in 1921, a true child of the Depression in New York City, her father died when she was five years old and her Mother bought and worked in a candy store in Brooklyn 364 days a year. She definitely carried that fear of survival with her throughout her life. I observed for myself that in addition to providing their basic needs, I wanted children I raised to have the experience of being seen and heard as individuals.”

A corporate manager for five years, Aimee started a resume-writing business so that she could make money at home after her daughter was born. “I would sometimes be on the phone with a client, while I was nursing!,” laughs Aimee.

Her resumes center on clients reframing their life experiences, gaining self-awareness and focusing on new possibilities using their talents and skills. “Clients are enthusiastic to experience a combination of life coaching and inquiry which leads them to their next authentic step! They walk away with a professional document that reflects who they are now in addition to what they’ve done.”

 

Life Purpose Demands That We Grow and Learn

Always interested in pursuing academic interests, Aimee decided to earn a graduate level life coaching certification from JFK University, in Orinda, California in 2003 at age 49. She also graduated from the Academy for Coaching Excellence founded by author Maria Nemeth.

Now, with her daughter a freshman in college, at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Aimee is turning her attention full-time to opening possibilities for other women through workshops, coaching, and Infinite Possibilities Resumes.

The transition out of full-time mothering, however, proved to be fertile ground for new insights that Aimee is taking into her work.

“For the last couple of years, every time I thought of the term, “empty nest,” I had a visceral reaction,” she said, my energy would go down. Then something shifted.I cringe at the term empty nest…as if life is now a barren void that requires filling.

To coin new terminology, the idea of Spacious Nesting, provides more breathing room for me. There is space to reconnect with ourselves and loved ones; to explore new possibilities, discover new friendships and make new contributions to our community! ”

When Arielle went away to college three thousand miles away, I realized I had two choices. I could focus on my worries, doubts, and fears, and keep feeling the need to give her advice. Or, I could see her as the emerging adult she truly is. I choose to honor and respect her decisions.

As I kept thinking about the idea of nests, it occurred to me that empty could also be seen another way—as spacious. This idea of spaciousness began to influence how I thought about everything.

To me, spaciousness implies an openness to new things. It is a perspective that is naturally expansive and full of possibilities. It's a whole different way of life.”


The idea of a spacious nest describes how I want to live now—for my family and for myself. Instead of worrying, I want to support my daughter in her choices and ideas for her own life. It's not about letting her go, it's about stepping back and getting out of her way.

To paraphrase Hodding Cater Jr.’s famous quote that he said of parents, ‘we've given our children roots (by the age of eighteen.) now it's time to give them wings.’

You Have Two Choices in Every Moment

Expanding on the idea of spaciousness in her coaching work, Aimee began to focus on supporting clients in seeing, that in every situation, they have two choices.

“One choice is to stay locked into what you think you know. You can choose to see reality through the lens of all the thoughts, beliefs, opinions and conclusions, patterns and behaviors that you've accumulated from parents, friends, culture, and experiences. Most people believe that this is reality.


The second choice is to become aware of your essential self in the moment—becoming present to what is, not what you think about what is.

When you view reality with a spacious attitude, you automatically have more access to what really matters to you, to your strengths, passions, and inner clarity. Not only that, but you can more easily recognize and flow with synchronicities that bring opportunities into your life that you could never have imagined.

In this curious and receptive state you are more likely to become aware of all the gifts that the universe has to share with you. It's only when you quiet down the static and chatter in your mind that you can begin to be available to your true nature.

Ironically, I don't think that people need to create or change anything. We already have a spacious life, because our essential nature is always present. However, what gets in the way of experiencing our true self is that inner judge. It's that part of us that focuses on our fears and chooses to criticize and cast doubt on new truthful ways of perception and being.

I notice in myself that, in a heartbeat, I can move back and forth between being in that fearful place wanting to control everything OR to being open to possibilities. I've been doing some research, and read that when we get into fear thoughts, our frontal lobe, which is where logic and reasoning occur, actually shuts down. That isn’t useful for us!”

 Passions May Develop into Paths

Aimee has begun to put together these new ideas with what she had learned in her consciousness studies. Recently, she offered a workshop called, A Spacious Nest, for mothers of adult children from ages eighteen to twenty-four.

“I want to support parents in moving into new roles as their children leave home. I'm also excited to talk with moms about the emergence of new roles for themselves.

People kept saying to me, 'What are you going to do when Arielle goes to college?' I say, 'I'm finishing my Masters's degree in Consciousness and Transformative Studies. I'm teaching workshops, coaching clients, writing resumes and writing a book about how to create a spacious nest!'”

In the workshop, Aimee encourages the mothers to talk about their concerns and fears about their young adult children. How do they see their children? Do they see them as having something wrong with them? Do they feel they need to repair something? Are the moms continuing to focus on their children, instead of being willing to take a look at their own goals and needs at this stage of life?


Aimee shared some of the most important principles that support us in shifting our focus from whatever confusion we are experiencing to a more spacious attitude.

 
    • First, observe what you are thinking about.
    • Remember to breathe deeply to stimulate the brain
    • Bring your attention to the present moment.
    • Feel gratitude for whatever is present in your life at this moment.
    • Realize that it's not up to you to know what's right for another's life.


“No matter what is going on in your life,” says Aimee, “take an attitude of inquiry. What is really true?”

This approach opens the door for unexpected solutions and inspired intuitive suggestions. When we are always worrying about our children—will they stay healthy and safe? Will they find meaningful relationships?... we don't help anyone. All of these worries come from a place that thinks that we know what is right for our children (or others.) In fact, we have no idea of how life will unfold for them.

If we stay in a spirit of inquiry we are available to what the universe has in store.”


If you would like to contact Aimee, her email is AimeeDeem@aol.com


Best wishes for November and December!


Carol Adrienne

 
Enthusiasm Moves Your World

   

Carol Adrienne, Ph.D.                              October 2010


Are you feeling called to make a major life change? How strong does the call have to be to motivate you to take the first step?


“Moving to Hawaii was like a calling,” says Elizabeth Jenkins, one of my dearest friends. We talked recently by phone and I was, once again, impressed with Elizabeth's ability to listen to and live according to intuitive direction. She is an inspiring example of living an authentically passionate life.

(Her web site is www.wiraqochafoundation.org )


Elizabeth, a licensed psychotherapist, is best known for her work with the Q'ero Indians of Peru. Over twenty years ago, she was plunged into the ancient teachings of Andean spiritual tradition of living in harmony with the forces of the natural world. She met her mentor, anthropologist and Andean priest, Juan Nunez led Prado. Don Juan's father, anthropologist Oscar Nuñez del Prado, "discovered" the Q'ero Indians--direct descendants of the Inkas--in 1949 and led the first expedition to their villages in 1955. Don Juan met and studied with his Master, Don Benito Qoriwaman—made famous in Shirley MacLaine's book, It's All in the Playing. Ten years later he received the Hatun Karpay Initiation in 1988.

Deeply touched and forever changed by what she experienced, Elizabeth went on to lead journeys of initiation with Don Juan, which have attracted participants from all over the world.

Moved by the plight of the indigenous people of the Andes, Elizabeth founded the Wiraqocha Foundation. The Foundation's mission is to support and promulgate the Andean philosophy of life and the vision of Andean prophets preserved by the Q'ero Indians of Peru. The Foundation continues to help bring supplies and relief to the Q'ero people--a tribe of 400 Peruvian Indians on the verge of extinction--while preserving their traditional culture and identity.


If you have ever dreamed of visiting visit Peru, you MUST get in touch with Elizabeth for the journey of a life time. You can begin by reading her two internationally bestselling books on the INKA Tradition: THE RETURN OF THE INKA: A Journey of Initiation and INKA Prophecies for 2012 and JOURNEY TO Q'EROS: Golden Cradle of the Inka.
Several years ago, I participated in one of the initiation trips with a group led by Elizabeth and Don Juan. We visited and did ceremony at ten Inka spiritual sites, including Machu Picchu. The experience was unforgettable.

“So what's new?” I asked Elizabeth on the phone. “Well, we've got 107 sheep now!” she laughed.

I remembered my visit with her a few years ago. I could easily picture the setting where she lives on the Big Island of Hawaii, with her mate, Barney Frazier, and their two children. They've got an organic orchard of 1600 fruit and nut trees, a herd of sheep, and a roadside fruit stand on the main highway.

Everyone dreams of getting away from it all and starting a new life. And they did it. How, you might ask, did Elizabeth and Barney go from living in a suburban home in California to an organic orchard in Hawaii?

“Just before 911, I felt like I was looking at life from the wrong end of binoculars,” said Elizabeth. “We were living in Martinez, California, in a home that Barney had just finished remodeling. Not only did he work on the house during the day, he also worked from midnight to six am in his commercial cleaning business, which he owned.

I was writing my first book, and conducting initiation trips to Peru. Our first child was not even one, and I was pregnant with number two. We were camping out in the backyard while Barney finished the house.

Right after Christmas, we got robbed.

After that, something changed. Even though we had just finished the house, the robbery propmted us to ask the question, “If we could live anywhere, where would it be?” We had never before discussed it, but we both said, literally at the same time, 'Hawaii.' The very next day I was on the Internet looking for property. Two weeks after the robbery, we found a cheap flight to Hawaii to look at property for sale.

Just before we got to the second house we looked at, I told Barney 'I feel like we are driving home.' We were on the southern tip of Hawaii, the Big Island, four miles from Naalehu, a town of 2500. I was struck by the beautiful black sand beach. The property we looked at is between mile marker number 67 and 68 on Highway 11, which circles the island.”

When Elizabeth came back to California, she kept dreaming about the black sand beach and swimming with turtles. “I knew that was where we had to go. It really was like a calling. 'This is where you must go.'”

For less than they sold their suburban home in California, Barney and Elizabeth were able to buy the five-acre orchard, bearing citrus, avocados, and macademia nuts, complete with a brand new house.

“Obviously, we knew nothing about farming. Oddly enough, both of us had grandparents who had each owned a fruit stand! Barney's granddad's stand is in South Carolina (his uncle still has it.) Mine was in Lowell, Massachusetts. My grandfather had transformed a gas station into a fruitstand, because during the depression, there was no gas.”

Elizabeth says, “We started listening to the land to see what to do next.”

“The front part of the land, adjacent to the highway, was an overgrown mass of bushes and trees. From the beginning, it seemed to be saying to us that it 'wanted to be something.'

At first we just started by picking up our fruit and boxing it up. We bought some boxes from a wholesaler, negotiated a price for a thousand pounds of limes, and drove it in to Hilo. But we quickly found out that wholesalers could change the negotiated price once we arrived! Very frustrating. After that experience, we were so mad that we decided to sell the fruit ourselves. We started with a table and a picnic umbrella. It just kind of grew from that. We were determined to be self-sufficient and not be dependent on the viscissitudes of a wholesaler.”

The picnic table has since been replaced by a thousand-square-foot open-air pavilion with a metal roof.

“We developed all our own products, which we sell at the stand and now on the Internet (http://www.ailaniorchards.com/) Along with the citrus and avocadoes, we sell organic, dehydrated Macademia nuts, and nut butters in dark Belgian and white Belgian chocolate. We also have home-grown coffee. The plants are interplanted between all the other trees. We also sell the honey from our own honey bees.”

Life purpose is an unfolding process.

In the last nine years, Elizabeth and Barney have continuted to“listen for the next step.” The orchard is blossoming in a new way now, as the couple's goals are expanding. For example, Elizabeth's teaching work with indigenous nature wisdom is widening out to include an educational institute to study sustainable farming, based on their development of natural farming methods.

As they worked the land, each next step seemed to come naturally. For example, they brought in a few sheep to keep down the weeds in the orchard. Not only did the animals trim the grass and fertilize the ground, they ate the fallen fruit, thereby reducing the fruit fly problem.

When we are living our purpose with enthusiasm, synchronicity seems to aid us in unforeseen ways. For example, a member of the USDA came by one day to discuss chemical traps to keep the flies down. When he saw how Barney and Elizabeth were handling the problem organically and sustainably with their herd of sheep, he invited Barney to share his story with other growers and to speak to the USDA.

“We knew the sheep would reproduce on their own, but we didn't realize that we would go from seven to 120 sheep,” says Elizabeth. “We didn't plan to raise organic lamb, but we had too many sheep, so we had to harvest them to keep the sustainablity of the orchard. We found the meat was unbelievably delicious. Feeding on citrus, natural grass, and avocado, they are happy lambs! Happy lambs taste better!”

In October, Elizabeth and Barney are attending the Bioneers conference in San Rafael, California. (http://www.bioneers.org/conference) Along with presenting their products, they will be discussing their new “educational vacations,” in which people can visit them for a week and participate in farm life for part of the day.

Elizabeth is also offering more advanced programs involving workshops with Q'ero Indians from Peru, as well as with local teachers, kahu, or priests, of the Hawiian tradition.

Elizabeth and Barney's story is a wonderful example of following intuition and living with enthusiasm. It exemplifies how our life purpose naturally leads us to deeper and deeper levels of experience and fulfillment. One thing always leads to another. The path opens one step at a time. Our conditioning tells us that we must strive to make things happen. However, authentic fulfillment comes only when we know how to listen, learn, and keep following the call.

Despite her busy life as a mother, farmer, author, and international workshop leader, Elizabeth continues to expand and develop in new ways. When I spoke to her on the phone, she had just come back from South America, where she was filming an episode for the Discovery Channel, for a program called Beyond Survival. She took Les Stroud, of Survivor Man fame, on one of her advanced initiation journeys.

“It was fantastic,” she said, “I was very proud of Les. He walked 100 kilometers through the Q'ero nation villages--through hail and sleet and snow, going over passes more than 18,000 feet high. He went from the tiny villages all the way to the Q'ollorit'i festival on top of the glacier.

We were invited to perform rituals in the sacred temples of the Q'ero Indians. They had never had outsiders perform before. I've worked with many of the Indians for the past twenty years, but I had never been to this sacred mountain,Wamanlipa, before.”

Elizabeth and Barney are also very involved in the educational lives of their children.

“We love where we live, but with this remote location, we decided to go with home schooling. We are also planning to bring some of the Q'ero children from Peru to study here on our land. We want to offer a new model of education, building a leadership program with the Q'ero kids with our Q'ero kids project. We want to support these kids in a collaborative interaction with a globabl world view. They will study with Hawaiian kids to learn about sustainability, science, and solar energy. We want to offer them the best of modern and ancient ways to live sustainably on the earth. We want the Q'ero children to share their traditional views about Pachamama (mother earth) to illuminate our children. A great exchange!

Now that we are attending the Bioneers conference this month, it feels like we are really bringing together organic farming, sustainable agriculture, with the indigenous wisdom which has been such powerful influence in our own lives.”

As we said goodbye, Elizabeth laughed, “Following your vision is not always easy. But the universe is so infinitely creative. It comes up with a way better plan than I could ever have thought of. We just had dinner on the beach with all our friends, with ten kids playing frisbee and the adults cooking and drinking wine at sunset at the beach. What a life. I couldn't have designed it better!”

Happy October!

Carol Adrienne



 
Seven Principles of Effortless Action

 

The Seven Principles of Effortless Action



What's Not in the Business Plan:
Trusting Your Intuition &
Everyday Coincidences
To Help You Succeed

Are you willing to drop your five-year plan if something better comes along that you hadn't planned for? How open are you to business unknowns (the parts that are fortuitous and providential)--those serendipitous gifts that come your way that lead to greater success than you could ever have imagined or planned? Or do you stick to your straight and narrow line of thinking?

In our work environments, we are often ruled by "realistic" notions--by facts and figures--by charts, numbers, and logical pieces of information that we can prove. It's the world of business, and we're encouraged and predisposed to make our work routine. Besides being a factual world, (one we can put our hands on and one we can back up), it is also a world of rules and guidelines and protocol that must be followed. But are we overlooking something--something that costs nothing and can easily lead to greater success and an innovative edge?

There are steps we can take to begin to increase the magic and inspiration of synchronicity--or, put another way, being in the right place at the right time:

EFFORTLESS ACTION
  • Get clear about what you really want--that is, what kind of environment are you looking to exist in? Friendly people? Good clientele? Loving relationships? Opportunities for leadership? More freedom and flexibility? Focus on the feeling tone of what you are after, even if you can't imagine how to get it. Let the universe organize the specific details for accomplishing it. That's why affirmations work--you co-create with the universe.

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  • Listen to your intuition. Intuition is the still, small voice that hangs out in the back of your mind. It's persistent. It make come quickly, or it may keep nagging you a little bit. In hindsight, it's what makes you said, "I knew that." If you have the hunch to call someone or go somewhere, do it.
  • Take action. If you are thinking of buying a house, finding a new doctor, volunteering for a worthy cause, or improving your garden and haven't yet taken any action, open up more. Keep your question in mind, and notice who you run into or who calls you. If your question crosses your mind, ask that person for a lead that might pertain to the information you need.
  • Interpret the results of your action and be aware of coincidences. Don't dismiss coincidences as random. If something happens that seems even a little out of the ordinary, your energy will go up. This is a confirmation that something is happening in your favor. When you have no energy for something, really look hard at why you want to proceed with something that has no energy to it.
  • Stop doing what isn't working. Give it a rest. Go with the flow. Some things need time to germinate and surface again in a completely new guise. Ask for clarity from the universe.
  • More pleasure and gratitude. Taking pleasure in what you receive raises the frequency of all your situations, and allows you to attract people and opportunities more in tune with that vibration. Like attracts like. Who was it that said, "Life is painful, but suffering is optional?"

We all know how to use common sense. Uncommon sense is what we trust when we take a leap of faith. It comes not from the obvious, or the ordinary, or the expected. It comes as a result of knowing who we are (and who we are not), and trusting that to take us where we need to go. It's a deep knowing or trusting our intuition to be on our side. It pulls from a deeper level of wisdom--of what's right for us. Uncommon sense is listening to the voice that says, "Slow down," when we're late, and slowing down is the last thing we want to do.

Once you learn to listen to your intuition and use uncommon sense, a whole new world opens before your eyes. Your life will have more meaning. Your job will seem less mundane. You will learn to focus on your purpose and why you've made the choices you have. You will begin to see yourself as part of something greater--something bigger than simply getting up and doing your 9 to 5 job.

THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF EFFORTLESS ACTION

Effortless action is not synonymous with sitting on your chair doing nothing. Effortless action means creating change without straining to "push the river." Going with the flow. Setting the wheels in motion. Effortless action is setting a goal and paying attention to what needs doing and allow the results to come when and how they come. Effortless action is being willing to do whatever it takes, but not trying to control what you cannot control.

The following seven principles are something to review from time to time when making business decisions.

Principle 1: Act on Passion. Take a stand for what you believe in. Remember your purpose is to contribute the best of who you are at all times. You are in this particular work situation because this is the place where you can fulfill your life purpose for the time being. There is a reason you were led to take this job or create this career.

Principle 2: Be Discerning. Let your rational mind and intuition work together. Trust first impressions but always check out the facts.

Principle 3: Listen very carefully to unspoken feelings. Flow through on persistent intuitive messages.

Principle 4: Notice where you lose or gain energy. Notice when you begin to rationalize, justify or blame. You feel something is not right? Take action even though it may take you out of your comfort zone. It's time to discover what you will need to change or release from your life.

Principle 5: Commit. Do whatever it takes to put you in motion toward doing what your intuition is telling you.

Principle 6: Assume synchronistic support (or providential help) is coming your way. Coincidences you never expected confirm that you are on the right path, even if their meaning is not crystal clear at the time. Some people say, "If it's supposed to happen, it will."

Principle 7: Trust the process. Trust that your life is unfolding as it should and that your intuition will lead you in the right direction.

 

Carol Adrienne, Ph.D., is the author of The Purpose of Your Life: Finding Your Place in the World Using Synchronicity, Intuition, and Uncommon Sense, and co-author with James Redfield of The Celestine Prophecy: An Experiential Guide, and The Tenth Insight: An Experiential Guide. She is also the author of The Numerology Kit, an do-it-yourself guide to understanding the blueprint of your life.


 
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