RAISE YOUR VIBRATION & ACTIVATE DNA

This is a prayer I wrote inspired by a message from Archangel Michael especially for these times to assist us in raising our vibration and activating our DNA.  "You must ask each day, you will always be activated if you ask."  I wrote this for the benefit of all sentient beings.  If you copy this, please include this link: http://antarasjewels.blogspot.com/- Antara Davis

Divine Mother Father and all the holy ones who assist me on my earth journey,  thank you for all your blessings and assistance in my life. Please send your healing energies to all those who suffer so that they may have health, peace and happiness.

I call upon Archangel Michael, and his Legions of Angels, to use the Sword of Truth to cut all that keeps me from living a healthy, positive and meaningful life so I easily create my Heaven on Earth.

I ask that you increase my frequency levels that I may receive healing light energies, and all DNA upgrades and activations that are appropriate for my highest good. I call in and activate the Divine blueprint of  my being’s perfection to manifest effortlessly.

May the veils of forgetfulness lift at precisely the right moments for clarity and understanding and so that I may be of the highest service to others.  May the divine energies, vision, and  creativity always flow through me.

With divine blessings, I live a heart-centered life, breathing and feeling my love radiating out in smooth rhythmic waves shifting my body, my life and my world into beauty and balance.

I exist in a great column of Light which aligns me to the heart of Mother Earth and Father Sky, protecting me from harm and keeping me connected to the loving powers that be.

Loving Ones, help me always to live in the knowing that I am a powerful, magical Being of Light, a Medicine Woman of Healing Wisdom and Love, a creator of a world of joy and peace and harmony, with beauty, health and abundance within and without me.

May I hold and anchor all these higher vibrations and daily invoke them so that I never lose momentum.

May All these requests embody and manifest from within myself and may all that I ask  be for the Highest Good of all .

May all beings be so happy.

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Image by Mario Duguay. Archangel Michael's message came through Marlene Swetlishoff at  http://www.therainbowscribe.com

It's getting close to full moon and sacred ceremony time and I am excited to plan a great one for my spirit sisters. It will be about honoring 2 amazing old oak trees and then honoring our own innate wisdom and stepping up the energy of our inner/outer "medicine woman". We'll do some DNA activation, brain activation, and regeneration of our own physical and light bodies. Time to shift and uplift!

Her ashes fell from the alabaster urn like pale silken powder into the jade colored river of Big Sur, CA. The eight of us stood silent in the shade of towering redwoods witnessing the final release of Jane Jackson’s mortal remains. Some of Jane clung to the riverbank mud just below the waterline while the rest of her moved sinuously downstream like a long serpent. Observant Crow cawed out in approval from a branch high above.

Only one of us had actually ever met Jane. The rest of us were here to support our friend who had spent the last 2 years in deep mourning and depression over the loss of her mother. On this day we had gathered for an intimate ceremony and it was a beautiful, poignant moment, both short and sweet. There were no tears. All the tears had long ago been shed. For the daughter it was the culmination of achieving peace in her own soul at such a deep loss. There were no regrets, no deep heaving sorrow this day. I felt like my purpose was to bear witness, to put some wind under the wings of a burden set free.

I could never really tell you of the deep dark valleys of my friends heart-wrenching pain. I once saw the jagged edges of it. I heard a red cheeked muffled cry long ago. But I cannot tell you of her journey through grief’s turbulent waters. What I do know is I saw my friend emerge out of the canyon this ruby-leafed autumn day, strong and confident in some unshakeable truth that lay anchored in the sparkly jade of her eyes. She seems to have shed this feeling of deep-alone that she has always carried with her like a bedraggled blanket.

What I saw this day by a rushing wide river, and what I heard this day by a fire that consumed white stallion words, told me that here is a woman who has come full term into her own, wearing brown mud boots and silver moon hair. Here is a woman who can pour her mother out like a fine glass of champagne and feel like, “ now all is well, all is well.”

The crows circled and sang that day above the red and gold maple trees on the hill above the river. And it felt as if Jane was hugging the very air we breathed. In one auspicious moment we felt a wave of peaceful bliss blanket us and the forest felt still and warm. I bore witness today to miracles small and vast like the many white pearls wrapped around Anya’s neck and I am richer for it.

What is a Modern Day Shaman? by Antara Davis

WHAT IS A MODERN DAY SHAMAN?
(an excerpt from an article written by Antara Davis)


First and foremost a shaman lives in harmony with Mother Earth and Father Sky. A shaman understands that Mother Earth (mater, matter, the divine feminine aspect) is alive, that we are her children, and that all living things are our brothers and sisters. Because of this, a shaman never feels alone – one’s true family is all around you. Father Sky represents the vastness, the unseen, the unknowable, the Great Spirit. Spirit & Matter merge and we are born, sacred children along with all of creation. In this most fundamental way, we are related to “all that is.” This is the greatest harmony, the greatest connection and understanding you can have. You know your place in the universe, your true family, you see all with great respect and you have a deep love and compassion for “all your relations” in an unending way – beyond any boundaries, even of the earth.

A shaman understands the teachings and knows how to develop a heart connection and working relationship with the 4 powers (East, South, West, North) and the 4 elements (air, fire, water, earth). Combining this with the great above and below, (Mother Earth and Father Sky) and the center (our Sacred Self) comes the understanding of unity, oneness, the whole, the medicine wheel , the ever turning great circle of life.

From the development & embodiment of these understandings, comes understanding your place in the medicine wheel universe, how to walk it and use these teachings of balance. In this process, one can achieve complete acceptance of yourself as is, for you are a sacred child of divine forces.  You have a deep love and respect for these forces of the universe and you find that you are living in harmony with yourself, within and without, trusting and surrendering to that which is beyond our little egoic self.

A shaman lives in harmony with her surroundings. She recognizes that her surroundings are a reflection of who she is, and where she is at on many levels. If you are surrounded by beauty, then beauty is the way you live. If not, then there is your work. 

A shaman is peaceful and accepts what is, yet is constantly trying to make a more beautiful peaceful healed world in all that she does. In this way, wherever a shaman goes, whatever a shaman does, she is leaving a trail of beauty behind her. 

With beauty before me, and beauty behind me, and beauty all around me, beauty is the way I live. This is the motto of a shaman.... (for the full article, click here).

IT'S OUR MIND THAT'S CREATING THE PROBLEMS

“IT’S OUR MIND THAT’S CREATING THE PROBLEM”

My Notes from Lecture by Ven. Robina Courtin, a Buddhist Nun

Antara Davis

There’s what happening to you, and there’s what you DO about it.

That is the whole practice.   Just be kind.  Just be happy – very advanced practice J

It’s so simple but our minds are so complicated we can’t hear it. We have to slow our minds down so much just to get the profound teaching of “just be happy.”

What happens is just what happens. If we could just let that be, we’d have no problems in life, we’d be

getting somewhere – that’s actually movement. What happens and how we deal with it is the most amazing portrait of how we are and who we are. It’s also showing us with great clarity and precision the work that we have to do.

It’s our mind that creates our problems in our life. As we change our mind we change everything around us. How do we change our minds? Buddha gave us 84,000 teachings on this and each one is cleaning a different aspect mostly it’s ignorance and lack of awareness

ASK YOURSELF…What is my resistance to just allowing this from being what it is?

Once you ask this, it gets very profound, it gets deeper and deeper into letting go. That’s what happens when you inquire about this . Ask, what I am bringing to this that’s making it a problem? Then just let that go. Whatever is making it a problem is coming from the mind. It is perception, our way of viewing the situation. Everything I have any suffering over is because I am holding onto something. Ultimately there is NOTHING to hold onto, you can’t hold onto anything, it all changes, yet without truth and dharma we are stuck like flies on flypaper to samsara/illusion and delusion.

When you think you have reached your limit, realize that you have no limits, your mind has no limits. Any limits you think you have are just your perception. Know that whatever happens, you can deal with it.

Once you put yourself on the road of awareness and Enlightenment, theres no turning around.

Awareness is so important. When you are aware of your actions and the reasons for them, it clears the mind – it is the tool of clearing the mind.

-- First there’s awareness of your problems,

-- then there’s the practice to slow down to prevent it from recurring,

-- then there’s a clearing of the mind,

-- then you see life exactly as it is.

When you can be with things as they are, YOU are in control of the situation. Sounds crazy but it’s true. You’re in control because you are letting things be how they are and just deal with it.  It’s the resistance that keeps you stuck, it’s wanting to control, to manipulate that keeps you stuck.  When you are free from trying to control, you just dance with what IS. That’s what the DALAI LAMA does, its so simple, its almost beyond our comprehension. It blows my mind how simple it is.  It’s us who makes our life extremely complicated and we make life difficult, telling ourself some fancy twisty storyline with unending details and you can’t see how simple it is. Because whatever is, it just IS. No matter how twisted and horrible, it just is.

When you catch yourself before you do a negative action, you can change your mind. When you change your mind, you change the situation. You are not the victim. But sometimes karma is so strong its very difficult not to do negative reaction.

When ego gets attacked, try thinking IMMEDIATELY  “WOW! This is great! I’m so lucky this is happening” – you have to think this right away or you will get stuck in the storyline.  You have to treat your mind like a little child, training it in the beginning how to think correctly. Even when your depressed or discouraged, you don’t have to press the first domino, bring to mind your awareness because it dissolves.

A lazy mind is not working to generate merit. The mind needs to be strong to start generating merit. It’s that merit that brings light, dispelling darkness of delusions, and allowing clarity and enlightenment to happen.  So make the mind strong so you can change it.

Grind this into your mind: Be kind. Until it becomes your breath. It takes a lot of constant effort but that is what it takes to transform mind/life very fast.  Then once you have this dharma mind, you just stay with it through all life instances, stay with it. It’s the greatest adventure to find out about your mind. Your Buddha mind is never going to leave you, the adventure is to clean up the obstacles to find the freedom of Buddha mind that is already there. Solve your own problems, see things differently, not just for your benefit but for others. And then you become a vehicle for healing because we all need the healing.

The greater the hurt you have in your life, the greater the ability we have to transform.

When you blow it, the good part is that it cuts your pride, it shows you how much work you have do.

If you recognize the gap between your mind & BUDDHA mind? Then you see that’s your practice, that’s your work to change your mind towards that.

KEEP the Dalai Lama in your heart & keep checking in w/him

When you Wake up – think, what is BUDDHA gonna send me today?

BUDDHA is not out there. He’s in you. If DALAI LAMA is out there, we have a problem. The fact you can perceive DALAI LAMA out there means your one of the fortunate ones, that’s why you have to do the work, because it means DALAI LAMA is IN you, he isn’t really out there.

The DALAI LAMA appears in human body , and if he’s sick, it’s because of your mind, it’s because you cannot see him in any other way. You have to purify your mind to see him truly. Everything is screaming out EMPTY. And we can’t hear.

Learn more about this amazing dharma teacher here- Ven. Robina Courtin