Favorite Intention is the seed of Consciousness, True Connection and Human Evolution

collective manifestation is beauty by melissa wadsworth

Collective Manifestation Beauty

I recently had a great conversation with Kristen Manieri of The Synced Life. Kirsten Manieri is focused on the beauty and wonder of human connection through intention and attention. As she puts it, ” Tom me, life is about constantly evolving as a human being. It’s about using the experiences presented to us every single day to upgrade our consciousness.”

Kristen Manieri, The Synced Life

Kristen Manieri, The Synced Life

This is the kind of conversation I love having, since it keeps me focused on the potential of humanity and evolved consciousness. We discussed topics like:

  • what intentional community is (any group you are connected to and find real support within – friends, co-workers, life interest groups, neighbors, lifestyle groups, activist groups, spiritual community, etc.)
  • simple ways to raise your heart vibration through intention
  • how we each embodying an archetype that others responds to or can tune into – and that all we all bring exactly what is needed to this world
  • and how we have only scratched the surface of what humans are capable of Being!

I invite you to listen and let me know how you live with intentional awareness and expanded heart. Click the link below.

The Synced Life Conversation

 

Your Shadows are Portals to More Magical Collective Manifestation

shadow self

photo by Andrei Lazarev

There will come a time when running around on the surface of life will not suffice. To be the change-makers we wish to be at heart, we must be willing to delve into our own darkness with courage and with compassion, with forthrightness and gentleness.

Only by going deep within, to be in shadow spaces, can you each learn that shadows are not places where you are stuck; shadows are places where you find your true self.

Shadows are gateways to higher understanding that we may move into and through. Like a hollow in a tree, the hollow of our core self is but a doorway, a passage to something deeper and more magical. We can be the co-creators we dream of being if we collectively uplift our own shadows into the light of understanding.

Shadows represent only one level of understanding, yet you must enter here to reach other heights of learning and knowing of the true nature of Higher Self. Through the shadow portal, you can emerge fully awakened, wide-eyed, able to see clearly in ways you never could before.

As we pass through the Winter Solstice of 2018, befriended your shadow aspects as sacred-source places where divine dwells (just as it does in the light). Dip into your shadows and realize that here you meet your better self. The energy you encounter in your shadows is not scary and overwhelming, but rather kind and understanding. It does not berate, it empathizes and forever calls to you to liberate yourself from the names you give to shadow aspects.

Shadow contemplation will enable you accept your wholeness, and to liberate self from fear of shadow aspects. From this worthy place of liberated space you can aspire to higher branches of consciousness, to expressing loving wisdom towards self. Embrace and fuse your light/darkness with love, knowing that this is no different than accepting and unifying your Feminine/Masculine energies, your Fire and Water aspects, your Air and Earth balancing facets.

Nothing is to be avoided, only seen consciously through the lens of compassionate awareness and acceptance. Your shadowy hollow is part of your heart core, so it can be none other than part of Your Whole Divine Self – a place of transmutation and transition where you affirm your intention to liberate yourself from unconscious limiting behavior and subconscious beliefs of not-being-enough.

This shadow play is a vital part of collective manifestation. If you wish the collective shadow to dissipate, then you need to do your own clearing and transformation.

As we continue to form the new reality we wish to inhabit, do so from a welcoming heart that embraces the world – not from the outside, but rather from the deepest places inside. It is the unconditional heart embrace of your true nature that is love, that is never only one aspect, but your wholeness and health that lives forever in the kingdom of Divine Beingness.

The shadow is an invitation to experience the cleansing nature of going within. Immediately acceptance brings more lightness to one’s spirit.

Take one step to release the shadow hold, to let it be held in awareness lightly. One shift in perception, one glance to a higher frequency. The Gene Keys are a great way to identify and embrace shadow play.

What we see around today as societal dysfunction and chaos is collective avoidance of looking at one’s shadow aspects. What is denied gets projected even further outward onto “reality” and onto others. This is constriction of heart rather than expansion.

By going into the shadows you will come to realize you have entered a magic kingdom of love and acceptance rather than judgement-punishment-shame-blame. Bliss lies here in the shadow – when you emerge purified of all misconceptions and wrong perceptions and ideas you had about yourself.

Shadow is not the scolding mother, the berating self. Shadow is a part of the human co-creation field. That field can be empowered by love or be a field of victimhood.

On this Winter Solstice 2018, be like the owl that emerges from the dark hollow of the tree into the womb of the night, into the nurturing environment of Yin energy (Mother-feminine) that wants you to grow and BE your highest potential.

As you emerge from your dive into your deeper Self, you will be newly purified. Now you are able to be the open wings and heart of true unconditional love. This is the source of inner validation that is required before you fly into daylight to express your human genius. First self-love and unconditional acceptance, then uplifting all that you do from that kind place of self-bliss. What magic might you manifest from that? What heaven might we collectively manifest?

Melissa Wadsworth is a futurist, artist, change-maker friend and author of Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Creating Intentional Community.

Old World Disorder Intensifies As New World Realty Emerges: Calling Inner and Outer Activists


collective manifestationIt can be a challenge to stay focused on our individual paths of brilliance and our collective endeavors for the good of all, as the old world order falls apart. With most social media and traditional media focused on what no longer works in politics, education, healthcare, justice systems, the environment, and personal relationships, it is easy to fall into old programmed responses of fear and anxiety — that old paradigm systems love to create and make money from.

Yet, keep in mind that inherent in the point of greatest tension is the greatest potential for creativity expansion. We are blessed to live in a time of conscious collective manifestation.

Many of the most exciting and dynamic change-makers of the world today are not here to jump into the abyss of dysfunctional and diseased systems. They are not part of the deconstruction team that is dis-banding and bringing down the old systems. They are not here to be “heroes” that rescue.

The global change-makers I am aware of, are mostly on the construction team for New Earth and an empowered new world reality. They are co-creators here to collaborate, innovate and bring new multi-dimensional support systems into place. The collaborative systems, projects, designs, and innovations that are rising up serve the greater good of all. The change-makers I see are enthusiastic, hopeful, energized and directive. They know how to stay focused on what is possible rather than what no longer works. They understand how to appeal to and encourage the hero in each individual heart to emerge.

New world reality = a balanced open-system that nurtures environment of generosity, intuitive and intellectual brilliance, diversity, and equality.

The new paradigm is about Collective Manifestation of new creativity, productivity and unity. Service and the wellbeing of all are the highest values held by the new change-makers.

What is emerging is based on intentions of empowering all with true liberation. Collectives of people aware of soul-aligned power, true flow and authenticity magnetize other people and new potential outcomes. The new world reality is based on unified expressions of greater consciousness and expanded ideas of possibility for humanity.

Inner Activism and Outer Activism

New sacred productivity is both seen and unseen.

In the seen, the new is interactive; it is driven by illumed perspectives, inspired creativity, heart-led relationships, collaborative forums, cooperative strategies, innovative communities, and authentic communication. Yet, because most of us have be brought up and programmed in the power of “Doing” it is tempting to go into overdrive trying to fix problems in the physical realm. This can create further mental and physical imbalance.

To balance this, there are many heart and soul-led intuitives and collaborative groups inspired to work in the unseen “Being” realm to seed new possibilities of collaboration and co-creation. This is a focus of first playing in the energetic field of divine feminine heart-centered intention, imagination, intuition, vision, what if curiosity, visualized ritual, and stillness. Divine feminine is a reception field of seed energy that holds and then radiates out expanded potential. It’s where humans can better understand energy patterns that affect what is manifested in the seen realm. By playing with and nurturing expanded potential before jumping into action, what comes newly into manifested reality is bolstered by higher vibration, by higher vision, and by harmonious structures created by expanded heart and high mind rather than structured on small-mind fears and ego will. This is inner activism that supports the efficiency and effectiveness of outer world activism of divine masculine at the levels of heart-based interpretation, decision, planning, cooperation, discovery, experimentation, inclusion, adaptable perception, and physical implementation.

This new world reality mindset of collective manifestation is about believing there are no limits on how good reality can get (even in the face of possible societal collapse). This is life as art and activation. From an expanded heart, individuals and groups are practicing holding multiple positive realities. In this way, the possibility of one reality does not preclude the possibility of another potential reality. They can live side-by-side. The New Earth realities arise alongside the chaos of the old systems and structures breaking down and falling apart.

As you contribute to the New Earth in the New Year of 2019, be aware of where it is natural for your skills and talents and passions to play.

Are you more suited to sitting in meditation, to linking up with others remotely through intentional contemplation of what’s possible to bring into being, to envisioning and expanding heart and mind, and to healing the collective consciousness through energy pattern modalities or through personal shadow work and personal clarity around purpose? Are you the person willing to do the deep dives into the human psyche in order to identify the blocks to human greatness? Are you willing to take full responsibility for your own stuff because you recognize that this is the way that the collective consciousness field evolves?

Or are you more suited to joining specific teams of people enacting strategies in the physical world — to marching in the cities, to joining intentional committees and communities committed to planetary sustainability and plenty for all, to expanding your participation in revolutionary systems and structures that expand global equality? Are you the person who literally wants to stand up for something or someone by taking some physical action? Do you have get-it-done energy to spare and yet understand that this is a long-term process?

Do not get caught up in the game that one path is better than the other. Some will say that if you don’t take visible action you are not doing enough. This is an under-sight. It’s part of our social programming that says only visible action matters. Let’s not reinforce that old paradigm. Those working in the unseen should not have to validate their worthy contribution. It should be trusted that they do important work suited to their particular brilliance.

We all are being inspired to contribute to the new world order in the best way we can. Trust that. Trust yourself. Keep listening to your intuition, keep taking the simplest actions that present themselves for you to take. It all plays out perfectly.

You are a bridge to New Earth

No matter whether you are an inner or an outer activist, you ARE the bridge between the old reality structures and New Earth realities. Forerunners embody the frequency of the new reality and that’s how it comes to BE! Your very presence helps inspire and awaken others. Through your modeling of New Earth values others see how to cross into the new reality of love, cooperation and innovation.

Melissa Wadsworth is a futurist, artist, and change-maker friend; she is the author of Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Creating Intentional Community.

United States Immigration Policy: An Opportunity for America to Mature

photo by marten Van Den Heuvel

The Trump administration’s Zero Tolerance immigration policy highlights the immature mindset of the United States in regard to immigrants, migrants, and anyone who desires to cross our borders. It’s a fallback to isolationist policies that made it possible to deny entry to Jewish people fleeing Nazis and rationalize the encamping of our Japanese citizens. It effectively calls up our collective shadow of racism and slavery in its many forms.

Why is this so upsetting? Part of the Collective Story that we Americans hold (and tell ourselves) is an image of a welcoming country with the Statue of Liberty greeting foreigners as they come into “safe” harbor. The reality about what we collectively manifest in reality is something more complex. This is what we have the opportunity to transform – a narrative with a shadow side of racism. Can we do it? It’s a choice of individual and collective consciousness.

The current situation with children being separated from their parents at the border and put into camps is a horror show.

Not only does this non-process violate the very foundation of America’s Collective Story, it shows all the real flaws and darkness in the manifestation of this collective ideal of being a welcoming nation. The rationalization for these brutal actions reminds us of how “welcoming” foreigners in the past has actually occurred.

Experience shows us that newcomers contribute in important ways to our societal fabric. We benefit from diversity. They always add more than is taken.

Yet for many decades “entry” to our country has been made to be difficult and unpleasant by collective society – a process of pain and derision that has been accepted by the newcomers as the price to be paid for eventually being accepted. Something to get though until one is grudgingly treated like they belong.

There is a history of being terrible to whatever new group of people arrives, until the next wave of immigrants arrives to become the new center of disdainful focus. It’s a collective manifestation of the perspective: “I went through it, why not them.”

In this way America has behaved like a Frat House hazing potential newcomers. Immigrants are made to go through a gauntlet of pain and derision before we accept them into our fold. They are made fun of for their differences until they generally adopt our surface qualities.

Now, America seem to be turning its collective back on the stuff of its greatness – its immigrants entirely. With Trump’s No Tolerance policy, and the way it is being enforced is making us a Thug Nation. How deeply rooted are our values of a “great America” if they can be so easily unmoored, so easily shown to be false?

The hope from an evolutionary perspective is that we move pass a juvenile response to newcomers and open our hearts in true mature Welcome.

Grown-up consciousness does not go further down the path of racism and non-inclusion and using racist-based laws and policies to create prison populations for free labor. A mature America does not return political favors by manufacturing immigration issues and by giving political supporters detention facilities to run.

This is not an ideological debate about law. It is not a mental math problem to be worked out. This is an issue about the HEART of America. The United States and each of it’s citizens is being asked to make a mature moral choice about this issue.

No more pretending to be a land of welcome and not actually welcome people who are different from us. No more inauthenticity. All is transparent.

No longer will a collective narrative of being a welcoming committee for strangers be enough. The symbolic statue of liberty is not enough. The mask has fallen with Trump’s Zero Tolerance Policy.

Greatness is not a façade. Greatness is a core strength that permeates all layers of a society. We are failing the greatness test.

The energy behind the words truly matters. The intent behind the symbolic narrative truly matters. How we really show up matters!

Choose one thing, at least, to support the moral choice you are making between:

  • The Immorality of heartless human usery and total abandon of compassion
  • And, the morality of inclusion and heart-based service to others

Some issue have gray areas. This is not one of them. If we stand for children being 1)separated from their parents for doing what immigrants have done for decades – coming to our shores in hopes of safe harbor and a better life, and 2) do not ensure that the children are returned to their parents in a timely manner we are immoral and will stand for anything. If we do not process the parents immigration application in accordance with efficient and compassionate procedures, then any process can be rationalized.

If one chooses immorality, one chooses fear. Then one chooses to remain the immature human easily triggered into a fear state of reaction. This choice aligns to a subconscious run by a basic belief in the limits of humanity. This is heart contraction.

If one chooses morality, one chooses love. Then one chooses to evolve into a true adult capable of acting from the heart in a consistent manner showing care for the well-being of all. This choice is based in a belief about the potential of humanity. The adult American collective consciousness is able to worry about adequate resources for all citizens AND respond with faith and creativity, with hope and heart engagement. From the heart many solutions are possible. This is heart expansion.

Just as the collective narrative we have been telling ourselves about our reception is not the truth, we are invited to see that the fear-mongering immigration and border policies of the Trump administration – of the republicans and all politicians who stay silent – is not a reflection of any truth, but the truth of heartless power plays. To pretend they are based on any form of religion or spirituality or national value is making a choice to put the American mask back on, to hide in the shadow side of the American spirit.

Let’s collectively manifest a better heart-felt reality that moves us forward toward our collective potential rather than turning our backs on it.

May we all reach out. May we all engage our hearts in the healing of this narrative rift as we mature into being the LIVING representation of what we hoped to be all along: a Welcoming Nation of Unlimited Possibility. The possibility still exists. The question is will we accept the invitation to be more than we have ever been before? Will we accept the opportunity to let this issue break open our hearts personally and collectively?

This Fourth of July may you consciously decide what values you will live, what narrative you wish to live into and collectively manifest. No more carelessness and unconscious living of an old narrative. Let’s live and love into our true mature American potential. Let’s embrace that and each other.

Melissa Wadsworth is the author of Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Creating Intentional Community. www.collectivemanifestation.com.

Understanding the Value of the Law of Attraction in Birthing a Unified New Earth

collective manifestation and law of attraction

photo by Gerson Repreza

Recently, a friend posted on social media about her experience with the Law of Attraction. She recounted how obsessed she was with learning about this natural law. Then she denigrates it from her current perspective of being of service to humanity and seeing the Law of Attraction as being a selfish focus – a material focus.

This got me to thinking about the Law of Attraction and it’s role in the development of human consciousness and personal manifestation – as well as how it helps us to arrive at group effort and collective manifestation that benefits ALL.

As humans we tend to think of our current perspective as an end point, a kind of “oh I’ve got it!” arrival of insight or wisdom.

When we remember that we are always is process of becoming aware, of expanding our understanding, then we realize that no one stage of personal growth or of consciousness development is the END. It’s not the end-all, as they say. It is a DOT of understand on the spiral of Life.

Understanding the Law of Attraction – even realizing that such a thing exists – is a vital transition point in our human-spiritual consciousness. It serves a function of moving us from outer focus – what others think, what others do, what others believe we are capable of achieving, what restrictions exit that limit us, etc., to an INNER focus of what can I perceive and realize through my own heart-mind wisdom.

The Law of Attraction that basically states that “Energy Attracts Like Energy”. The Law of Attraction is a necessary path to empowered awareness. Once you realize you are a co-creator of what is experienced as your reality, you can no longer be a victim.

Once you realize that there is not one version of reality, but millions of individual experiences of reality through one’s belief system, then you can no longer abdicate your power to an outside force with a puny perspective of how it really is.

Once you realize that your subconscious thoughts together with the emotional vibration that they generate creates beliefs that launch physical reality (as situations, events, circumstances,) then you step into your greater creator Self that is not here to be REACTIONARY. Your are here to be a creative powerhouse connected consciously to divine will.  As a creator force playing an “As If” game, you increasingly respond to subtle love-wisdom energies and intelligence that is beyond man-made dictated versions of reality. This is an important stepping stone to creative abilities. Just as we move from outer focus to inner focus, we move from concrete mind to more abstract mind practices.

When you realize that understanding the Law of Attraction is but a phase of consciousness development, then you can move on to your next phase of greater consciousness. Some people, of course, are so enamored of the Law of Attraction that they want to stay stuck in creating material outcomes. This leads to much spiritual by-passing, selfishness, and the spiritual being over-laid on the material world of consumerism. This is a mistake of perception, of course. It is a limitation to expanded consciousness.

Law of attraction understanding can lead to an inner sense of great inner bounty. You realize that the mind-heart connection informs the physical world.

From the development of this sense of inner bounty can flow much graciousness, compassion, and an expanded sense of service to others.

Yet, attachment to material games, it is always a choice made in consciousness. Humans, for varying reasons, and based on various needs, may choose to stay stuck in LOA games. This is ok. Each choice is just a perceptual expression. Many people like playing the human perception game and staying with that experience. Yes, it may seem selfish. Try accepting it as a natural phase of consciousness and soul development. Many paths, yet we are One.

For those who incarnated for a bigger game of service to humanity, and service to the birth of new Earth unity through collective manifestation (group focus and activity), then there is a natural inclination to move on. Seeds of spiritual inspiration help us to embrace greater awareness and to KNOW of greater possibility. This drives us forward as vehicles of light.

In the end, the greatest sign that any of us has shifted our consciousness into a consistent spiritual gear, is the non-judging, non-straining mind.

The Dali Lama is a great example of someone who is able to hold great consciousness of all the suffering and multitude of antics wrought by humanity and laugh. Realizing the illusionary nature of the outer human experience (manifested outcomes of the human mental, emotional, physical consciousness), he is able to observe, to act on, and to be connected to ordinary reality, while maintaining higher clarity about true human potential and the living nature of all Beings: mineral, plant, animal, planetary, galactic, and beyond.

The Law of Attraction is a bridge to Higher Consciousness. Be aware of it. Play with it. Empower yourself and others. Use it to align to the highest version of manifestation you can imagine that impacts all levels of divine expression and experience.  Use it to manifest through group intention and focus. Maturing consciousness naturally leads to this kind of collective play in which responsible choices are a path to liberation and expansion.

Group service and collective manifestation are coming into Being in each Now moment. From separation and division we are moving toward unity. We are on path; you are on path. Have faith in that. Have faith in the power of that inevitability. Much love to all.

Melissa Wadsworth is the author of Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Creating Intentional Community. www.collectivemanifestatiton.com

The Manifestation Field of Synchronized Heart and Mind

This past week I went on a road trip from Seattle to Crater Lake in Southern Oregon and back home again. It was a thousand mile trip into new awareness about human potential and the huge transition potential we have right in front of us.

Symbolically this potential presented itself as magnificent volcanos – mountains of diverse growth and beauty reaching toward Heaven and grounding into Earth.

Alongside the incredible mountains, there were flowing rivers, open blue skies and beneath all this surface beauty, there was the palpable sense of great potential waiting to emerge. Potential YET undreamed of!!

This reminded me that this is no time to play small or to accept status quo definitions of empowerment. We are meant to liberate ourselves and others into something much grander.

This is a choice. We can pretend that the old illusionary game of consumerism and acquisition of stuff and personal status is real. Or we can up-scale to a game of empowered creation and service to life itself. This requires stretching our horizontal and vertical boundaries – our energetic potential of heart and mind that is soul driven. This is a great responsibility and a great honor.

If we are in fear or lack, we are in the old game.
If we feel excitement and bounty, we are in the new game.

If we judge others, we are in the old games.
If we sense expanded love, we are in the  new game.

Be clear. The old game is very limited. After so many hours observing great beauty, my husband and I drove into Seattle. Seattle is a congested landscape that pretends: “This is what good growth looks like…this is what potential looks like.”

In this landscape people are literally running into each other. In a strange way, it is dance of near misses and attempted connections. Yet, this eco-system does not feel cohesive. Heart and mind have not melded into a High expression of human potential at its best. Of course, we are still learning how to focus our abilities and new skills steeped in higher consciousness.

Yet, after so many hours of witnessing the beauty of Earth, in all its diversity, of Mother Nature creativity, my mind keeps pulsing out the message: “We humans can do better than this!” It’s not condemnation, it’s an invitation! It’s a revelation!!

We can be more creative, more innovative. We can infuse our creations with spiritual energy rather than pretending that spirit is something that is separate from our creations. When we mentally separate spirit from creation we end up with strip malls. When we infuse spirit into creation we end up with electricity and Monet’s lilies and great pyramids. We have examples of how we align to greater expressions of divinity.

Bounty is all around us at all times. It IS the stuff of manifestation energy. Yet, we keep thinking we need to manifest abundance. Abundance is not the end point, it is the beginning!

From expanded hearts and minds we tap into unlimited possibility. Yet, this requires a huge shift in perspective. We must override much of our social programming that was designed to keep us ignorant of our true potential. It requires that we stop trying to achieve within an old energy system that is falling apart.

So, what is the focus from expanded heart that you can merge into? It will most likely require a leap of faith. Yet, like a tributary merging into a great river, perhaps a shift of consciousness can make this transition smooth. Not all people may have the awareness that they get to choose the life game that they play. If you are fortunate to be AWARE that you have free will to choose, then chose wisely.

As my road trip through Oregon and Washington clearly showed me as I passed a connected mountain chain of grand beauty, we can collectively tap into our Higher Potential – our Higher Nature – and reflect that or we can continue to collectively play a lowlands game. It really is up to us.

We each are a tremendous energy field of both calm and dynamic potential. I know…believe me I know!…it can be challenging to be in the land of unknown potential. Trust that your higher senses are being sharpened and tuned for this bigger game of magic and connected BEINGNESS. We are already sharing our hearts and minds for we are networked energetically. The more we acknowledge this, the more we understand that there are no others. There is only human potential we have the privilege of exploring, discovering, playing with and merging with.

Ask yourself: “What of human beauty would I like to see endure?”
Ask yourself: “What possibility would I like to INTEND into manifestation for the good of ALL?”

Ask yourself what you are here to BE or Do and then focus on that. Some of you already embody energy that is helping to transform the world dynamic. Don’t let a decaying world game distract you or steal your precious Life energy. You are here as a Being of light, and love, and levity. You are a creative force.

Be your mountainous Self. Reach for peak consciousness that gives you a bigger view. Take heed of the grand effect you have on the  planet and others just by showing up with clear intention. We are playing for no less than the expansion and expression of Human Potential.

Let’s all activate the BEST in each other. Let’s help ground each other when we go spinning off untethered. Let’s all BE a more joyful, creative and focused expression of service to Self and ALL

May we all bring our Highest Selves to this road trip that is Life. I love you all!

This past week I went on a road trip from Seattle to Crater Lake in Southern Oregon and back home again. It was a thousand mile trip into new awareness about human potential and the huge transition potential we have right in front of us.

Symbolically this potential presented itself as magnificent volcanos – mountains of diverse growth and beauty reaching toward Heaven and grounding into Earth.

Alongside the incredible mountains, there were flowing rivers, open blue skies and beneath all this surface beauty, there was the palpable sense of great potential waiting to emerge. Potential YET undreamed of!!

This reminded me that this is no time to play small or to accept status quo definitions of empowerment. We are meant to liberate ourselves and others into something much grander.

This is a choice. We can pretend that the old illusionary game of consumerism and acquisition of stuff and personal status is real. Or we can up-scale to a game of empowered creation and service to life itself. This requires stretching our horizontal and vertical boundaries – our energetic potential of heart and mind that is soul driven. This is a great responsibility and a great honor.

If we are in fear or lack, we are in the old game.
If we feel excitement and bounty, we are in the new game.

If we judge others, we are in the old games.
If we sense expanded love, we are in the  new game.

Be clear. The old game is very limited. After so many hours observing great beauty, my husband and I drove into Seattle. Seattle is a congested landscape that pretends: “This is what good growth looks like…this is what potential looks like.”

In this landscape people are literally running into each other. In a strange way, it is dance of near misses and attempted connections. Yet, this eco-system does not feel cohesive. Heart and mind have not melded into a High expression of human potential at its best. Of course, we are still learning how to focus our abilities and new skills steeped in higher consciousness.

Yet, after so many hours of witnessing the beauty of Earth, in all its diversity, of Mother Nature creativity, my mind keeps pulsing out the message: “We humans can do better than this!” It’s not condemnation, it’s an invitation! It’s a revelation!!

We can be more creative, more innovative. We can infuse our creations with spiritual energy rather than pretending that spirit is something that is separate from our creations. When we mentally separate spirit from creation we end up with strip malls. When we infuse spirit into creation we end up with electricity and Monet’s lilies and great pyramids. We have examples of how we align to greater expressions of divinity.

Bounty is all around us at all times. It IS the stuff of manifestation energy. Yet, we keep thinking we need to manifest abundance. Abundance is not the end point, it is the beginning!

From expanded hearts and minds we tap into unlimited possibility. Yet, this requires a huge shift in perspective. We must override much of our social programming that was designed to keep us ignorant of our true potential. It requires that we stop trying to achieve within an old energy system that is falling apart.

So, what is the focus from expanded heart that you can merge into? It will most likely require a leap of faith. Yet, like a tributary merging into a great river, perhaps a shift of consciousness can make this transition smooth. Not all people may have the awareness that they get to choose the life game that they play. If you are fortunate to be AWARE that you have free will to choose, then chose wisely.

As my road trip through Oregon and Washington clearly showed me as I passed a connected mountain chain of grand beauty, we can collectively tap into our Higher Potential – our Higher Nature – and reflect that or we can continue to collectively play a lowlands game. It really is up to us.

We each are a tremendous energy field of both calm and dynamic potential. I know…believe me I know!…it can be challenging to be in the land of unknown potential. Trust that your higher senses are being sharpened and tuned for this bigger game of magic and connected BEINGNESS. We are already sharing our hearts and minds for we are networked energetically. The more we acknowledge this, the more we understand that there are no others. There is only human potential we have the privilege of exploring, discovering, playing with and merging with.

Ask yourself: “What of human beauty would I like to see endure?”
Ask yourself: “What possibility would I like to INTEND into manifestation for the good of ALL?”

Ask yourself what you are here to BE or Do and then focus on that. Some of you already embody energy that is helping to transform the world dynamic. Don’t let a decaying world game distract you or steal your precious Life energy. You are here as a Being of light, and love, and levity. You are a creative force.

Be your mountainous Self. Reach for peak consciousness that gives you a bigger view. Take heed of the grand effect you have on the  planet and others just by showing up with clear intention. We are playing for no less than the expansion and expression of Human Potential.

Let’s all activate the BEST in each other. Let’s help ground each other when we go spinning off untethered. Let’s all BE a more joyful, creative and focused expression of service to Self and ALL

May we all bring our Highest Selves to this road trip that is Life. I love you all!

This past week I went on a road trip from Seattle to Crater Lake in Southern Oregon and back home again. It was a thousand mile trip into new awareness about human potential and the huge transition potential we have right in front of us.

Symbolically this potential presented itself as magnificent volcanos – mountains of diverse growth and beauty reaching toward Heaven and grounding into Earth.

Alongside the incredible mountains, there were flowing rivers, open blue skies and beneath all this surface beauty, there was the palpable sense of great potential waiting to emerge. Potential YET undreamed of!!

This reminded me that this is no time to play small or to accept status quo definitions of empowerment. We are meant to liberate ourselves and others into something much grander.

This is a choice. We can pretend that the old illusionary game of consumerism and acquisition of stuff and personal status is real. Or we can up-scale to a game of empowered creation and service to life itself. This requires stretching our horizontal and vertical boundaries – our energetic potential of heart and mind that is soul driven. This is a great responsibility and a great honor.

If we are in fear or lack, we are in the old game.
If we feel excitement and bounty, we are in the new game.

If we judge others, we are in the old games.
If we sense expanded love, we are in the  new game.

Be clear. The old game is very limited. After so many hours observing great beauty, my husband and I drove into Seattle. Seattle is a congested landscape that pretends: “This is what good growth looks like…this is what potential looks like.”

In this landscape people are literally running into each other. In a strange way, it is dance of near misses and attempted connections. Yet, this eco-system does not feel cohesive. Heart and mind have not melded into a High expression of human potential at its best. Of course, we are still learning how to focus our abilities and new skills steeped in higher consciousness.

Yet, after so many hours of witnessing the beauty of Earth, in all its diversity, of Mother Nature creativity, my mind keeps pulsing out the message: “We humans can do better than this!” It’s not condemnation, it’s an invitation! It’s a revelation!!

We can be more creative, more innovative. We can infuse our creations with spiritual energy rather than pretending that spirit is something that is separate from our creations. When we mentally separate spirit from creation we end up with strip malls. When we infuse spirit into creation we end up with electricity and Monet’s lilies and great pyramids. We have examples of how we align to greater expressions of divinity.

Bounty is all around us at all times. It IS the stuff of manifestation energy. Yet, we keep thinking we need to manifest abundance. Abundance is not the end point, it is the beginning!

From expanded hearts and minds we tap into unlimited possibility. Yet, this requires a huge shift in perspective. We must override much of our social programming that was designed to keep us ignorant of our true potential. It requires that we stop trying to achieve within an old energy system that is falling apart.

So, what is the focus from expanded heart that you can merge into? It will most likely require a leap of faith. Yet, like a tributary merging into a great river, perhaps a shift of consciousness can make this transition smooth. Not all people may have the awareness that they get to choose the life game that they play. If you are fortunate to be AWARE that you have free will to choose, then chose wisely.

As my road trip through Oregon and Washington clearly showed me as I passed a connected mountain chain of grand beauty, we can collectively tap into our Higher Potential – our Higher Nature – and reflect that or we can continue to collectively play a lowlands game. It really is up to us.

We each are a tremendous energy field of both calm and dynamic potential. I know…believe me I know!…it can be challenging to be in the land of unknown potential. Trust that your higher senses are being sharpened and tuned for this bigger game of magic and connected BEINGNESS. We are already sharing our hearts and minds for we are networked energetically. The more we acknowledge this, the more we understand that there are no others. There is only human potential we have the privilege of exploring, discovering, playing with and merging with.

Ask yourself: “What of human beauty would I like to see endure?”
Ask yourself: “What possibility would I like to INTEND into manifestation for the good of ALL?”

Ask yourself what you are here to BE or Do and then focus on that. Some of you already embody energy that is helping to transform the world dynamic. Don’t let a decaying world game distract you or steal your precious Life energy. You are here as a Being of light, and love, and levity. You are a creative force.

Be your mountainous Self. Reach for peak consciousness that gives you a bigger view. Take heed of the grand effect you have on the  planet and others just by showing up with clear intention. We are playing for no less than the expansion and expression of Human Potential.

Let’s all activate the BEST in each other. Let’s help ground each other when we go spinning off untethered. Let’s all BE a more joyful, creative and focused expression of service to Self and ALL

May we all bring our Highest Selves to this road trip that is Life. I love you all!

This past week I went on a road trip from Seattle to Crater Lake in Southern Oregon and back home again. It was a thousand mile trip into new awareness about human potential and the huge transition potential we have right in front of us.

Symbolically this potential presented itself as magnificent volcanos – mountains of diverse growth and beauty reaching toward Heaven and grounding into Earth.

Alongside the incredible mountains, there were flowing rivers, open blue skies and beneath all this surface beauty, there was the palpable sense of great potential waiting to emerge. Potential YET undreamed of!!

This reminded me that this is no time to play small or to accept status quo definitions of empowerment. We are meant to liberate ourselves and others into something much grander.

This is a choice. We can pretend that the old illusionary game of consumerism and acquisition of stuff and personal status is real. Or we can up-scale to a game of empowered creation and service to life itself. This requires stretching our horizontal and vertical boundaries – our energetic potential of heart and mind that is soul driven. This is a great responsibility and a great honor.

If we are in fear or lack, we are in the old game.
If we feel excitement and bounty, we are in the new game.

If we judge others, we are in the old games.
If we sense expanded love, we are in the new game.

Be clear. The old game is very limited. After so many hours observing great beauty, my husband and I drove into Seattle. Seattle is a congested landscape that pretends: “This is what good growth looks like…this is what potential looks like.”

In this landscape people are literally running into each other. In a strange way, it is dance of near misses and attempted connections. Yet, this eco-system does not feel cohesive. Heart and mind have not melded into a High expression of human potential at its best. Of course, we are still learning how to focus our abilities and new skills steeped in higher consciousness.

Yet, after so many hours of witnessing the beauty of Earth, in all its diversity, of Mother Nature creativity, my mind keeps pulsing out the message: “We humans can do better than this!” It’s not condemnation, it’s an invitation! It’s a revelation!!

We can be more creative, more innovative. We can infuse our creations with spiritual energy rather than pretending that spirit is something that is separate from our creations. When we mentally separate spirit from creation we end up with strip malls. When we infuse spirit into creation we end up with electricity and Monet’s lilies and great pyramids. We have examples of how we align to greater expressions of divinity.

Bounty is all around us at all times. It IS the stuff of manifestation energy. Yet, we keep thinking we need to manifest abundance. Abundance is not the end point, it is the beginning!

From expanded hearts and minds we tap into unlimited possibility. Yet, this requires a huge shift in perspective. We must override much of our social programming that was designed to keep us ignorant of our true potential. It requires that we stop trying to achieve within an old energy system that is falling apart.

So, what is the focus from expanded heart that you can merge into? It will most likely require a leap of faith. Yet, like a tributary merging into a great river, perhaps a shift of consciousness can make this transition smooth. Not all people may have the awareness that they get to choose the life game that they play. If you are fortunate to be AWARE that you have free will to choose, then chose wisely.

As my road trip through Oregon and Washington clearly showed me as I passed a connected mountain chain of grand beauty, we can collectively tap into our Higher Potential – our Higher Nature – and reflect that or we can continue to collectively play a lowlands game. It really is up to us.

We each are a tremendous energy field of both calm and dynamic potential. I know…believe me I know!…it can be challenging to be in the land of unknown potential. Trust that your higher senses are being sharpened and tuned for this bigger game of magic and connected BEINGNESS. We are already sharing our hearts and minds for we are networked energetically. The more we acknowledge this, the more we understand that there are no others. There is only human potential we have the privilege of exploring, discovering, playing with and merging with.

Ask yourself: “What of human beauty would I like to see endure?”
Ask yourself: “What possibility would I like to INTEND into manifestation for the good of ALL?”

Ask yourself what you are here to BE or Do and then focus on that. Some of you already embody energy that is helping to transform the world dynamic. Don’t let a decaying world game distract you or steal your precious Life energy. You are here as a Being of light, and love, and levity. You are a creative force.

Be your mountainous Self. Reach for peak consciousness that gives you a bigger view. Take heed of the grand effect you have on the planet and others just by showing up with clear intention. We are playing for no less than the expansion and expression of Human Potential.

Let’s all activate the BEST in each other. Let’s help ground each other when we go spinning off untethered. Let’s all BE a more joyful, creative and focused expression of service to Self and ALL

May we all bring our Highest Selves to this road trip that is Life. I love you all!

Melissa Wadsworth is the author of Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Creating Intentional Community.

What are the virtues you nurture on behalf of humanity and to fulfill your life purpose?

collective manifestation

We are always seeding qualities for the evolution of humanity.

I’ve been thinking a lot about virtues: those personal qualities that I’ve developed and those that I need to develop further. This self-development is in service to my own self growth and life purpose, as well as what I consider a rich source of higher energetic vibrations that I can contribute to the collective at this transformational time.

When you look around, what virtues are observable in the world today – in our communities, businesses, and social and civic structures? Which virtues are we starving for? What do you feel is much needed as an infusion of just the right kind of energy to keep humanity moving in the most wise direction?

I’ve been playing with the equation that intelligence plus love leads to greater wisdom. Intelligence is a mental state of being, while love is the conditioning factor or emotional TONE that transforms mental energy into something new, into an aspirational quality of greater wisdom.

Of course, in this exploration I start with myself. What can I seed within myself that can birth the offspring of intentional energy of intelligence and love?

How about you? What wisdom do you believe yourself capable of nurturing and growing? What virtues we you can intentionally develop in order to better fulfill your life purpose and to experience more life satisfaction?

I’ve put together a chart of some of my thoughts around this. Of course, each virtue or quality is important to develop on its own. Yet, somehow organizing them this way points to one being able to grasp a Big Picture possibility or potential. Each person can use their own strengths and weaknesses in order to develop particular virtues in a focused way.

Would love to hear what  you think. There are no right answers or equations here, only what makes sense according to your life experience and to what aligns to how you want to show up in life. We tend to get so caught up in doing that we forget the hugely important BEING part of manifestation. Yet, it is the BEING that sets the tone for all our outcomes. So BE with more intention.

If you were to create a table of the qualities and virtues you aspire to, begin by considering what feels like a mental quality and what feels like a heart quality to you? Think of Wisdom as the higher purpose or big picture state of being you wish to emerge into. Then what is the higher Wisdom that rises from the holding and expressing particular mental and emotional virtues?

After looking at my chart, try creating  your own chart. You might start by listing the wisdom virtues you would like to develop (column 3). Then what mental and emotional qualities might harmonize to create this virtue as a living reality for you? You could also list what you consider your mental strengths like curiosity, detachment and confidence, and then consider what emotional brilliance, like joy, sympathy or belief, would spark the greater wisdom. Then define the greater wisdom that might spring from that sparkling combination of mental and emotional energy.

Collective Manifestation Exploring Virtues Table:

Intelligence    + Love        = Wisdom of…
Open-minded Inclusive Truth
Curious Passionate Devotion
Courage Mercy Service
Idealism Belief Faith
Caring Appreciative Friendliness
Clear Intention Responsibility Vision
Optimism Commitment Perseverance
Awareness Appreciation Beauty
Imagination Enthusiasm Discovery
Integrity Sincerity Authenticity
Orderliness Tenaciousness Self-discipline
Patience Wonder Dedication
Fairness Kindness Justice
Receptive Generosity Graciousness
Focus Helpfulness Cleverness
Respect Patience Honor
Cooperation Flexibility Unity
Gratitude Forgiveness Peace
Humility Playfulness Reverence
Tact Sympathy Harmony
Bravery Trust Endurance
Humor Understanding Tolerance

After you create your chart, consider how you might apply such virtues to teamwork, community work or the development of cooperative projects?

In this spring season, the elements align to help us know what we are planting in the field of universal potential. I thank you all for all the intelligence and love energy that is manifesting more wisdom in our world.

Melissa Wadsworth is the author of Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Creating Intentional Community. She believes in our collective power to create the change we long for by aligning our mental intentions with our heart desire. www.collectivemanifestation.com 

How to BE Your Higher Self As a Portal to World Change and the Maturing of Collective Consciousness

Higher Self and Higher Consciousness

photo by Vinh Pham

Each time you shift from a low state of being to a more neutral state you are an alchemist raising collective frequency.

Focus on building heart energy to uplift your vibration and you do the world a great kindness.

When you hold mental and emotional space for the best possible outcomes (that may be beyond what you can imagine) you model trust in your own empowered sacredness.

You are a magician, truly.

Yet, like many humans, you probably discount and ignore all the ways in which you can empower yourself to be the higher version of your Self. It is all too easy for us to fall into smallness, into not enough-ness, and, when faced with immense challenges, to go down the track of despair “that nothing will change!”

What is most important at this critical juncture in human history, is that we create practices for shifting out of the old ego-based ways of thinking and behaving that is pain-based. We must remind ourselves that the ego is NOT designed to elevate the joy and satisfaction of life. Ego merely strives to survive. Joy and satisfaction is a Soul directive.

One of the most conscious and Elevated things we can do is to recognize that soul is leading human evolution – which is now, and has always been, a game of change. So how do we align with High Self rather than ego?

From immature scattered attention to mature intentional focus

Meditation is a great way to practice being your Higher Self. It provides space to both observe ego-mind antics and to quiet the spinning mind.

When you sit in meditation – whether that is sitting in stillness or engaging a guided visioning process – you sit in elevated intention and focus. When you sit in meditation as part of a group (that is in the same room or remotely connecting), intention becomes an even more focused and strong vibration. “I Intend” is a laser directed soul-based virtue that recognizes how to empower and elevate Self and others. Intention is an expression of soul maturity.

When we let ourselves be carried along by surface life drama, by unfocused mass consciousness, we take on the energy of “Whatever!” This is ego level reaction such as in “I can do whatever I want” or “I don’t know what I want, whatever.” Can you feel the immaturity of that? Intention is clear and precise – a direct path. Scattered attention is vague and heavy. It is low-level awareness. So find a practice that puts you in Intentional space at some point during each day. Get to know the Intentional You that you find there.

Simply empowering Self as recognition of responsibility to ALL

Affirmations can ignite your Higher Self to show up and maintain higher states of being. I ran across a beautiful one last week as I was focusing on health: “I luxuriate in Divine Healing Energies.” Such lovely imaginings springboard from this affirmation. Suddenly I am swimming in a healing sea and feeling the warmth of sun and sand.

Ideally, affirmations are used in sync with heart-based action that helps the Higher Self to re-pattern non-serving ego behavior (bad habits, for instance). Re-patterning behavior is an empowered expression of your elevated Self. It is the Self that recognizes that stretching oneself and reaching toward higher potential is a choice, and a responsibility. It is how we express higher Self and connect to All That Is which is always evolving. It is how we act on behalf of Self and the collective. The personal is global; the personal is cosmic.

Understanding that the personal is global means understanding the importance of loving and nurturing the sacred vehicle that is your body. We nurture Self so that we can nurture the World.

Nurture your mind with food for thought. It’s a cliche but we humans have strayed far into mindless distraction that does nothing to nourish the mind. I was watch the animated movie Wall-e the other day and all the overweight people only experiencing life as what was on the screen in front of their faces hit home. Our minds and hearts need to be nourished with quiet, with peace, with harmony, with love, with interaction that matters. We can nurture our bodies with Elevated thoughts, emotions and foods. It all gets digested and processed together. That’s what makes us manifesting marvels.

Creative reception and expression co-creates new culture and a New World

Intuitively receiving (downloading) and Expressing new human designs and blueprints is a soul virtue. That’s why being creative in whatever way inspires you and enjoying the arts is so important to building a new world. In order to explore and engage new possibilities, we need to stop being distracted by lower ways of being. It’s simply a waste of energy.

Being creative and more intuitively inspired on your individual life path affirms that sacred patterns are in play, constantly reforming our perceptions of reality. We are co-creators that are currently trying to Level-UP the human experience. Being creative gives sound, color and texture to what is trying to emerge energetically. Creativity is your Light energy at play. Creativity provides a landing space for potential. Don’t we want to experience more of this?

We are all engaged in collective manifestation at all times. We need to stop seeing the Arts and creativity as a past time and start elevating these activities to the Main Stage! Leaders who want control of the populace try to squelch the Arts. Consciously and  unconsciously they realize that artists of all types – musicians, poets, writers, painters, sculptures, textile makers, astrologists, mystics, gardeners, comedians, actors –  bring about change, see and express the truth. It is our artists that have the greatest power to receive and express the most significant energetic shifts in humanity. We are going forward.

Balance is kindness to Self and in service to the Collective

Balance Your All. Your light and dark aspects, your personal and global aspects. Your ego and unconscious mind will fight you on this. The ego likes excess and too much. It is not concerned with waste – waste of matter or waste of soul purpose. Yet the Higher Self desires simplicity and service that is for the good of all. There is no savior coming to save us. We are the world servers who bring compassion, mercy and forgiveness to a hurting world.

Those dark nights of the soul we each face alone or collectively are our Elevated Selves inviting us to find our true power – to connect to a higher degree of integrity and courage – to clean up our individual and collective acts. The high school kids from Parkland, Florida are doing a great job showing us adults how to Elevate intention, focus, and cohesive group action. They are showing us what response and responsibility are. Response is appropriate action that is arrow-like directed from the soul. It’s inspiring to watch a new generation act from their collective Elevated Selves. It’s a glimpse at the Unity consciousness coming online. It’s an example of the maturing of collective consciousness. Let’s all be part of that.

Melissa Wadsworth is an artist and the author of Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Creating Intentional Community. www.collectivemanifestation.com

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Being Connected to All That Is means Unconditional Love with Responsibility

Please enjoy this video featuring an Australian Yankunytjatjara Elder and Custodian of the Uluru Sacred Heritage, Bob Randall, that explains a fundamental value system of connectedness. Really beautiful.

When we lose that sense of the inter-connectedness of all things we no longer live deeply, we begin to live on the surface of life, in the life of materialism that has no fulfillment and no enduring power to provide meaning, values or sense of self-worth. We must understand our inherent belonging to All That Is and to honor multi-dimensional reality in order to have compassion and love for self and others that is built on a recognition of service to all that is living. This is a wonderful example of true intentional community.

8 Secrets of Collective Manifestation for 2018

Hummingbird tongue showing how to manifestWhat manifestation is and how we can facilitate BEING the stuff of manifestation, shifts as our perceptions shift. We are human projectors after all. We are the lens, the filter through which what we experience as reality comes into being.

Reality is a projection of your vibration, of your consciousness – both what aligns to it and what is experienced as a misalignment. That is why we can talk ourselves blue in the face trying to convince someone of a different vibrational reality and they just can’t “hear” it, they can’t see it. It simply is not their experience.

Dedication and commitment to higher consciousness provides awareness of where the nectar in life is to be found. First you must believe it exists for you. Then you must believe it exists for others too, and that you are not in competition for the nectar of life. The joy, the peace, the satisfaction you seek is present. It is the stuff of hopeful high heart collective manifestation.

Here are a few points that can help simplify how you manifest in 2018. I’ve covered some of this before, but I always find it helpful to restate these things for my own clarity and to provide inspiration to others. Think of it as the nectar I offer to all who fly by.

1. Reality is an inside job. What you are in consciousness (mental, emotional, physical, spiritual) is the “material” you have to work with as you create your life. The vibration of your light is like the flicker of a projector light on a movie screen. Your essence, your vibration determines what movie shows up.

2. What flows through each of us, as possibility, as intention, and as ATTENTION is material of New Earth reality. Collective manifestation or reality is not a circumstance we react to. Reality is a reflection of collective belief and programming about what exists and what is possible to exist. In the last year and moving forward, we are collectively being shocked into seeing what we have hidden from ourselves. This happen in segments. As we awaken to more of what has been hidden and horded in the shadows, we can clear it. Then we can hold greater fresh heart space for what we desire to collectively manifest as a reality that is accessible to ALL. You anchor reality in each now moment.

3. You choose in each moment what to create. If you wish to experience something better, start with the VALUE you wish to expand in world. If you want to see more kindness BE it. If you wish to experience more respectful interaction, MODEL it. If you believe your energy matters, pulse out joy, and peace, and love, and understanding. Keep choosing not to be the mean kid on the block or part of the mob. Keeping choosing to reflect on how your next word or action will positively or negatively affect others.

4. Neutrality is a potent manifesting force. Practice neutrality. This is a space of NO stories. Practice feeling and sensing what exits in a space of needing nothing, no particular outcome. What is present there? The mind likes to take sides, to have its way. Yet, the mind is a limited vehicle. When you trust that more than what the mind can comprehend EXISTS and is possible, you have more potential to play with, to align with (even if you don’t have a name for what this is). Neutrality is a high vibration. Trust in it’s potency.

5. Heart flow is the bridge from unseen energy into manifested (seen) reality. Attend to your heart energy and you attend to what you experience in each Now Moment. You manifest from energy. If you believe you need money to get what you want out of life then that will be true for you. Your ego mind will be in charge and will block heart flow from manifesting from any other possibility. As you become more awake and aware you see the ways in which you have been brain-washed to limit the true power of collective manifestation. If you understand and trust that you can magnetize bring into being what you desire then HOW it happens can be very creative indeed.

6. The Personal IS Global. What you manifest for self you manifest as an aspect of collectively manifested New Earth reality. So be aware of how you can make the personal global. If you desire equality for yourself, how does that become equality for all? How does truly loving your life, help others love their lives? We are programmed to feel guilty for having lives we enjoy. Try to release guilt and expand you heart energy so that all may benefit from more loving energy being present in the world. In that way you are always being of service to the Bigger Picture. Love yourself so that the world can be loving!

7. What is broken in our World is Healed by Clearing Trauma and Negativity. Keep releasing old stories, cultural brain washing, societal programming. Just today I released a piece of an old story that I had always felt bad about. Finally, I was able to understand the whole dynamic of trauma and let myself off the hook. If felt so simple. That’s how it is when we finally reach a place of greater understanding. It feels clear and simple and makes us wonder what took us so long to feel the truth of it. I am smiling at this truth as I type.

8. Take steps to Magnetize Magic. All of January I had a cold and little energy. Self care was the necessary focus. In an interesting way this has been healing on multiple levels, and helped me to break some bad habits. In the dreary grey of winter I put hummingbird feeders to magnetize these magical birds into my little sphere of reality. And that has made all the difference! Each day is a new opportunity to see and to attract the magic of the Universe.

As you progress through 2018, remember that there is not one reality. Reality is a co-creation. It is an energetic collaboration. Intend to be conscious at each moment of the energetic essence you are adding to the reality mix.

Melissa Wadsworth is a futurist, artist, and believer in human brilliance. She is the author of Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Creating Intentional Community, www.collectivemanifestation.com