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

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

MY VERSION OF THE PARADIGM SHIFT

PARADIGM SHIFT, WHAT IS IT?

 by Antara Davis  

After all the reading, downloading, listening, and viewing of the information surfacing at this time, this is what I have concluded about the paradigm shift.  It’s happening. All the lies are being revealed. The ones who are looking for the truth are finding it and spreading it and the shadows are scurrying away.

The spreading of truth is a contagious flame, fanned courtesy of the internet (talk shows, forums, youtube videos, whistleblower testimonies, etc etc.). The internet is a way of knowing and it links humanity in a way like never before, removing all middle man filters and giving us a direct connect with information and each other. The truths are coming out, rising up and spreading. In this way, the curtains are being pulled back and we see who are at the control panels and what delusions are being projected in this hologram of life.

We are witnessing the final throes of “deception and greed” attempting to keep the shackles on the masses by manipulating the media,  generating rampant fears, and concocting 101 ways to diminish our light.  The few at the top with all the money and power have up to now been fairly successful manipulating the unaware masses by  squashing truth about anything that gives us clear minds, healthy bodies, and energy independence (on every level).  The problem for them is, it’s not really working anymore.

But hold the presses here. Despite what it looks like, this energy has spurred on the evolution of humanity. The blinders are coming off and the lights are going on in our spirits, minds, and bodies like never before, and they cannot be turned off. Together we will throw off the shackles and rise up off our knees.  We are far more in number than the few at the top. The attempts to keep us down and locked in fear are to no avail.  It does nothing more than propel the awakened ones forward in action, in unity, finding the courage to sound our trumpets in every way we can. We have gathered the tools for years and we are using them.  It causes us to ramp up our own light and shine brighter because we will not cave into the fear. We know we are eternal, we call in the healing light to ourselves and thus increase the frequency for all. We’re here. We’re doing it.

We are reclaiming ourselves, our planet, and each other as allies. We do this with love and visions of what we ALL want -  peaceful communities all working in harmony with mother earth, awake to the power and unique beauty within each one of us.

 I’ve been shown the future. I hovered above the land with my guide and saw the people below united with unbelievable joy and happiness in their hearts – so much so that it lit up the night skies above them with sparkling rainbow energies swirling like living clouds of light. What a sight to behold! So much supreme joy. I asked my guide, “what is this?”. He answered, “it is all of you,  celebrating your victory, the treasure of your own happiness and true freedom.”   The feeling was, WE DID IT!!   I will forever hold this as my timeline of choice.

The great minds have given us the key truth - that our emotions, our heart, our beliefs are powerful beyond measure and if we gain control of our own energy in these ways we are free. And if we unite in thought & focus?  Well then, we shall live our dream here, on this planet, in this form healthy and vibrant and free. This unified mind and focus is above all what I want, what I sense is needed. It is happening and it is the answer.  It is the energy source creating our new paradigm – it is us, lit up from within, and connecting with focus.  You want enlightenment? This is enlightenment.  I see the old paradigm withering, panicking, and quaking in it’s boots as it’s very form comes apart and dissipates in the winds of change. OOH-YAHHH.

We are talking about an entirely new way of life, new way of being, new way of thinking – how huge is this? And we are alive to see it all, to be an active part of it, to shake the very fibers of our reality into something our souls thirst for.

Is that enough a paradigm shift for you? Me thinks so.

In the Light of Truth,

Antara  09-27-2009

TRANSFORMING OUR EMOTIONS

TRANSFORMING  OUR  EMOTIONS

by Antara Davis

Sept.23, 2009

Today I experienced an emotional hit and I thought it might be helpful to share about my process of transforming the energies. The point here is not the gory details of angry relationship issues but rather the cleanup on aisle 9.  Let’s just say it was an energetic hit and run with a loved one and I was left with the messy aftermath and my energy spinning.

One thing I do know is that the work to be done is always the mess at your feet.  I am aware enough to realize, ok, here is the mess, and oh yes, I do have a goody bag of tools.  Which rescue remedy do I use? Here’s what I did exactly.

I left the scene of the drama and went outside into clean clear air to sit with my feelings. I was slightly numb and the feelings were swirling without words around me. Kinda of like being in shock after an accident.

Then I checked in, I just went inside my mind and listened to all the stories that were popping up – there were lots of thoughts of justification, anger, blame, sadness, frustration, hopelessness, hurt, being wrong, worthlessness.  I let them run around just a bit until I began picturing a swirling black hole developing from which I might not have an escape if I let it develop fully. Mental brakes – screeeechhh!

I lifted above it and it was then that I remembered that this morass of feelings and thoughts were programs kicking in because my buttons had been pushed. Push the buttons, voila, like magic, the programmed negative emotions arise in strange colored waves, and if not dealt with, the negative reactions surely follow. But being the awake and aware person I am (cough cough), my goal is to s-l-o-w-w-w the process down enough to get at my own control panel and stop the unconscious programming from wreaking havoc in

my body, mind, and spirit. 

From previous experience I know that EFT works – that is, tapping on the body’s meridians while acknowledging the emotions/feelings/traumas and stating you still completely and totally love and accept yourself exactly as you are.  Because this is such a simple process, needing no one else, and needing no props and little time, I find it an extremely valuable tool and this day it became an integral part of my soul-ution.

So,  tissue in hand, sitting on my upstairs deck surrounded by the greenery of my garden and neighboring park, I began the process of tapping all my feelings out.  I did 3 rounds, each time with new feelings arising and releasing.  Tears would flow when I hit the deeper older belief systems, and I would keep going until it lifted.  The energy became lighter and lighter. I know I am done with the process when I can tell myself the story and have no charge about it. The charge is gone. Whomsoever discovered this process deserves a Nobel Inner-Peace Prize.

This whole episode of sitting on my deck in the noon sun, sad and tapping away, was also an opportunity to observe how the universe was loving and supporting me through this process. There was definite  Totem magic happening - Hummingbird, bringer of joy, hummed, chirped, and fluttered before me. Dragonfly, reminder of the illusion of maya, zipped and hovered directly before me several times. Twice, the Monarch butterfly flitted past my deck and stopped on a nearby bush. The butterfly is the symbol of shifting forms and transformation. 

And, as if that wasn’t enough, a magical flute player, whom I couldn’t physically see, but heard as if he was on the other side of my fence, played a 1 minute solo for me.  The magical flute player did not play approaching my house, it did not play walking away from my house, it only played directly in front of my house. It was a unique flute song, happy and atypical and it had my full attention. When it stopped I listened for steps walking away yet there were no sounds whatsoever other than birds chirping. the song was a real physical sound, like the tapping of my keys. At the realization of this gift, my body began shaking from its core and I felt a rush of emotion rise up and out of me. The feelings were deep gratitude that I was being seen, heard, and loved by the universe in this tangible way.  How miraculous, synchronous, and perfect was this spirit gift? I just felt in awe, humbled, and deeply supported in what I was doing.

Moments later I held my hands out towards the ground and claimed, “peace” with several deep breaths.  Now I could re-enter my home and clear out any remaining energetic debris by saging the “drama stage”, and offering a stick of incense, candle and a short prayer of gratitude and love before my tangkha of Chenresig, the Buddha of Compassion.  By this point I felt like I was close to the original space I was in before said drama-trauma.  My cleanup process so far had taken less than 30 minutes.

Still I felt there was more work to be done. Checking in with myself, I felt I had released emotions and swept up the debris,  but now I wanted to call in lots of light. I wanted to shift and LIFT.  So what to do next, I ask my Inner-Peace-Prize winner. The answer was to listen to some healing meditations I had recorded in my own voice that transform the physical, mental, emotional, and etheric bodies.  By the end of these, I had additional clearouts, new energy rushing through me, and I was vibrating at a much higher frequency. Here I can recommend a cd by Deepak Chopra and a healing meditation by PatriciaCota-Robles as very effective.

So here I am, 1 hour and half later, at the other end of all this process, writing about it while it is so fresh. Why? I guess I want to have a reminder in black and white that I am capable of mastering the storms that come at me. I want to always remember the help that is ever present, gifting me with love and support and manifesting in my environment constantly. And to honor that presence, engage it, and always forever appreciate it.  

There is not one person alive that does not have this presence too.  The help is there – it comes in endless forms, look for signs, it could be as simple as the kind lick of your four-legged friend. See it , hear it, feel it. Love is everywhere.

Remember the tools you have gathered to weather these times– know what works for you. Polish them. Use them. You do not need a drama-trauma to shift and lift your energetic and physical forms. Blessings to you on your own journey of healing and transformation.

We are all one,

Antara

Autumn Equinox 2009

THE GREATEST GIFT I EVER RECEIVED

THE GREATEST GIFT
by Antara Davis

I acknowledge the existence

Of  the Divine unfolding

of the Great Mother-Father-All-That-Is.

It is far beyond any knowing or measure

and I am humbled.

All doubts and challenges fade

in this

expanding light.

I am aware of the Divine Presence

pulsing in all that I see.

The greatness of All That Is

inspires this Goddess-fragment

 to serve and love ever deeper

All of Creation.

Desires for awareness of,

connection to,

and the serving of

Her Divine Will

makes it so.

My awareness of

 Divine Mother-Father

is the greatest gift I have ever received.

Because of this,

this chela’s will and the Divine’s

are ONE.

Two wings have joined.

Together,

Flight!

--Antara Davis Sept.26, 2009

WORLD PEACE DAY VIDEO

Here's a video I just created to honor World Peace Day coming up on Sept.21. -- I hope it lifts your spirits.

For more info about World Peace Day, check out this site: http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/

FOR YOUR EXCELLENT HEALTH

Howdy all – I’ve been getting a lot of good information on health from some great sources, have had good results already. Just thought I should share about 3 items in particular, especially vitamin D3. Long Healthy Happpy Life to you all - Antara

About Vitamin D3: – “There is hope for the Swine Flu – Vitamin D3 has been found in clinic research to be effective for both the prevention and treatment of influenza.”From fludaily.com

I started taking it a week ago because I heard from several sources its an excellent prevention for flu of all types including swine, and to replace the need for a vaccine (no no no). Since then I have researched other amazing benefits – prevention of plaque buildup (especially important for the heart and the brain/alzheimers prevention) and the list goes on and on, one of which is for your teeth & gums preventing loose teeth and gingivitis. take between 2000 to 4000 IU of it daily. IF you come down with flu, then read this article about how to increase the dose and other items to take. (it’s by a holistic MD)

My D3 story: I did not catch Vanessa’s flu while caretaking her for 2 days. That’s big. Also, My gums no longer bleed at all. I’m taking 4000iu daily.

Norma’s D3 story: D3 cleared up her intense body pains she had for weeks, and she found that not having sun created the pain (D3/sunlight deficiency).

Tumeric -- Using the seasoning Tumeric (active ingredient is Curcurmin) has amazing health benefits especially for the heart, see this article which discusses a long list of other benefits and also about taking the D3 and Curcumin combo.

Activator X --Finally, the 3^rd important item I wanted to share about was something called Activator X. Here’s an expert discussing it -- it’s fascinating research and is what is missing in modern diets. Basically its vitamin K2 that is found in certain oils/fatty substances and needs to be mixed with Vitamin A & Vitamin D to work its magic. You can google on where to purchase & other source info.

Irises in my garden

Today I took lots of photos in my garden. The irises are in perfect form, and the morning was gorgeous.
Here is just one of them. Their fragrance is heavenly.