I Can’t Find A Job I Can Even Stand

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Question:     I can’t find a job I can even stand.

Higgins:     We always encourage you to move towards the life of your dreams and we encourage you to dream big. Let us remind you, however, that it is easiest to achieve your dreams by starting small.

The discouragement evident in your comment draws us to remember this fine quote from a friend of the entity through whom we speak, “There is no such thing as bad weather. You are either dressed inappropriately or have a bad attitude.”

If a person’s attitude is generally relaxed about things then even the most menial or odious tasks are taken in stride. This is what we encourage for you. Relax. Take any job. Do your best at the tasks presented and move on.

Take for example a hike in the woods. Occasionally it is necessary to put one’s feet in the mud but one must do so to receive the delight of the hike in its entirety. Along the way one may bruise some Skunk Cabbage and the smell is sometimes unpleasant but it is the adventure of the hike, the beauty of the scenery, the comradery or perhaps the solitude that make the hike the hike.

And so it is with your job adventure. There may be some mud and Skunk Cabbage along the way but that is not a reason to avoid the adventure…that is the adventure.

Life is all about attitude. Look for the best in every situation because how you respond to life’s events today determines what presents to you tomorrow.

Received May 8, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, USA

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I Don’t Feel Kind

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Question:     I don’t feel very kind. I know what to do to appear kind but I don’t feel kind.

Higgins:     We have stated in the past that compassion is the pathway to kindness. If compassion is the pathway to kindness what then is the pathway to compassion?

Excerpted from our post on April 7, 2012: “Compassion is an emotion in the vibrational range of love and deep appreciation and encompasses the emotion of deep understanding.”

We went on to say, “Develop compassion by directing your thoughts towards gentle understanding and acceptance of the world around you.”

Acceptance of the world around you. That is the key for you. It is not necessary to agree with anything you see or hear. It is, however, necessary for you to allow every single thing you see or hear to exist. While it may take some practice to become comfortable allowing all things to exist whether you like them or not, it is in this same practicing that you will develop emotional space for kindness to exist within.

We also acknowledge the words, “I know what to do to appear kind…”, and encourage you to appear kind even when unable to emotionally link to the kind action. We encourage this for two reasons: doing the kind thing usually feels better emotionally than doing the unkind thing (and everything you do should be directed towards you feeling better), and practicing what you want to be leads to being what you want to be. (Think of a professional dancer or ball player, they didn’t get good wishing to be good they got good with consistent and continual practice.)

Received May 7, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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You Are Energy First, Flesh Second

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Offering from Higgins:

It is helpful to remind yourself from time to time that you are energy at the base of things. Flesh is secondary.

Consider that you, as energy, flow primarily from above the head to below the feet. Sometimes this flow of energy gets off course, the way a river eddies or changes course. It is of utmost importance to continually maintain the river of energy in a head to toe course. When the energy that you are is off course or stuck in an eddy life will not flow its smoothest.

When you are tired, frustrated, irritable or working too hard relax. Instruct your energy flow to get back in alignment. Breathe for awhile. Feel the energy return and notice how the mind clears.

This is a simple way to realign with your personal source of guidance. Life will smooth out when this technique is applied and a life lived in alignment with this eternal wisdom is rewarding and fulfilling.

Received April 27, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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Higgins View on West, Texas Explosion

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Question:  This explosion in Texas closely following the situation in Boston is a little freaky. Are they related?

Higgins:  Of course they are. When you focus attention upon a thing…anything…more of that thing that you give your attention to appears. By virtue of the excessive viewing and rehashing of the events in Boston, as a people your consciousness has created yet more of the same.

It is worth while to spend some time each day considering what you do want: personal safety, pleasurable activities, rewarding friendships, nourishing food, prosperity and robust health. Focusing attention on that which you do want will shift the energy surrounding you thus creating a sort of vacuum or suction that draws you towards positive experiences and out of harms way.

Received April, 18, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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Boston, Part 2

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Question: Hi Higgins. Yesterday, when I asked you about the bombs in Boston, I sort of thought you’d talk about the bombs, the bombers and the victims. You didn’t. Why?

Higgins: We did talk about the bombers and the victims. We talked about people. We talked about choosing what you want. If a person wishes to set off a bomb they will. If another person wishes a life of safety that is possible, too. They can exist simultaneously.

Each person needs to intentionally and clearly choose what sort of events fill their days. Let’s take this scenario: one person feels confident that setting off a bomb will provide them with satisfaction and another person knows that satisfying days include enjoyable days out with friends and family. Satisfaction to this second person means hikes in the mountains and walks along beaches. Additionally, they enjoy their daily job and feel loving towards their body.

By the laws that exist within the Universe a person who strongly wishes to set off a bomb will find a way to do that. However, none other need to be affected by it. The person who also clearly desires days that are satisfying but defines satisfying differently, where satisfying includes personal safety, will not end up standing where a bomb is about to go off. The Universe will draw them somewhere else.

It is perfectly reasonable to assume that each and every individual is capable of achieving safety regardless of the ill intentions of any other. Set your own intentions out clearly every  morning and every night and while the rest of the world may seem as though it is bent on self-destruction, your own life will blossom.

Received April 17, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, USA

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Higgins On The Explosions In Boston

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Question: Higgins, will you comment on the bombs/explosions in Boston yesterday?

Higgins: Certainly.

Peace is not the absence of violence and peace cannot be created in the absence of a peaceful heart. However, it is not necessary for everyone to seek peace to create peace in your life it is only necessary for you to seek peace to have peace in your life.

It is important for each of you to be clear about what you want. Make a habit either morning or night (or better yet both) of sitting quietly and reviewing the day behind and the day ahead. Consider these questions:  What went right today? What did you like about it? What was not to your liking today? How would you rather have had it be? How do you want tomorrow to be?

We encourage words like satisfying, fulfilling and entertaining. The Universe then draws you towards events that match these feelings and therefore away from events that do not match these feelings.

Life is very simple, really. Focus on what you want to experience in your life. Keep a positive attitude alive within you and go forth each day expecting little miracles and so it will be.

What most of you do instead is focus on what you do not want and then act surprised when the very thing you clearly do not want arrives in your life. It defies Universal Law to focus on school shootings and expect peace in the schools. It defies Universal Law to focus on war and terrorism and expect peace in the streets. It defies Universal Law to focus on a cure for cancer and expect anything other than more and more diagnoses of cancer.

Instead, focus on satisfaction, happiness, good health, solid relationships and other clearly positive word choices. Remember that stress free and peaceful are not the same thing. Choose your words with care and purposefully focus on maintaining a positive attitude about everything. Life will smooth out magically if you will.

Received April 16, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, USA

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Visioning a Kindness Paradigm Part 2

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

I asked Higgins to help me vision a Kindness Paradigm. In part one they said, “From our perspective then, a Kindness Paradigm for life on Earth is one in which each of you commit words and actions from kindness, kindness being defined as arising from the understanding that what affects one affects another thus nurturing a desire to create harmony through positive word and action.”

This is the continuing conversation.

Cheryl

Higgins: Continuing.

A kindness paradigm: word and action committed with intention to create harmony.

Consider construction. We specifically speak of roads, homes and shopping areas. If what affects one affects another and all action is committed towards producing harmony your roads would have side areas for walking or biking (or even for horses as a means of transportation and recreation). These side areas would even host wildlife. Homes would be built conscientiously with regard to local weather patterns, the lie of the land it sits on, proximity to neighbors and livability. Shopping areas would be beautiful as well as functional. Instead, what we see primarily is roads built for cars rather than people and homes and shopping areas built inexpensively rather than humanly.

While we understand the economic system that has developed we also understand that life is not about a dollar. Life is about self-expression and enjoyment. A kindness paradigm would fertilize positive expressive expansion of the individual and a world made up of happy, joyful individuals would be a nice place indeed.

Questioner:  So a kindness paradigm is about enjoying life?

Higgins: Not exactly. A Kindness Paradigm offers a format for societal structure that nurtures the individual…every individual. Every individual, properly nurtured, will grow to be something positive.

Think of a flower garden. Regardless of the species of plant chosen it needs space to thrive, temperatures neither too hot nor too cold, too wet nor too dry, neither shall it be too windy. Given proper nutrition and attention each plant within a garden grows to be a lush representation of whatever it is and whatever it is adds to the loveliness of the overall picture and the garden as a whole is less for each plant that fails to thrive.

A Kindness Paradigm for life would offer each individual the nurturing required to thrive. Right now, we see most of you simply existing within a framework that is ill fitting (your current paradigm) and chafes the human spirit the same way an ill fitting shoe chafes the foot.

Questioner: Thank you, Higgins.

Received April 10, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, USA

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Clarification on Relentlessly Pursuing Desires

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Question: Higgins, you said this, “Relentlessly pursue your desires. Why? Because pursuing your dreams is the pathway to happiness. Unhappiness, discouragement and depression result from not pursuing your dreams.”

Why do you choose the word relentless? It seems hard when all you seem to teach is soft.

Higgins: Good. We choose relentless because our soft words are producing in some of you a soft attitude. You must develop a strong will towards the object of your desires. The technique is soft and easy but your will must be clear, precise and sure. There must be no wavering on your part.

The steps towards success are always small and achievable. That does not preclude the need to ‘put your back into it’. Take for example the weight lifter. If the weight lifter dreams of lifting 500 pounds they cannot sit in front of the television and desire it to be so. No amount of dreaming will create the strength of body to lift 500 pounds. The lifter must also practice regularly to create the strength needed to lift the desired goal weight.

So it is with any goal: one must take regular steps toward the goal and sometimes must take them with gritty determination.

Received April 8, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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Relentlessly Pursue Your Desires

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Offering from Higgins:

Relentlessly pursue your desires.

Why? Because pursuing your dreams is the pathway to happiness. Unhappiness, discouragement and depression result from not pursuing your dreams.

Received April 8, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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Start With Yourself

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Cheryl Jensen

Offering from Higgins:

Many of you are feeling pressured or urged from a subconscious level to do something to help in the world. When faced with actually taking some sort of action step the enormity of the world situation becomes overwhelming often so much so that any plan to take action is quickly squashed.

Rather than attempt to solve the world’s problems as you perceive them to be simply change yourself. Express a kinder side of yourself. Be kind to others. Be kind to yourself. That’s all you need to do right now and it is enough.

Received April 4, 2013 at Lake Goodwin, Washington

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