Walnuts and Cherries

Do you know that w walnuts   and c cherries  both contain significant amounts of melatonin which can help with sleep, and are also a good source of antioxidants? Eating walnuts and cherries with yogurt is a beneficial evening snack. Frozen cherries are often available, even when there are no fresh ones.

LET THE REST OF THE WORLD GO BY

Here is a song with beautiful words and a beautiful melody. You can find it yourself on the internet, if you wish to hear it. I am posting it here because it is so pretty. I especially like the part that says, "a place that's known to God alone."  It was written in 1944 by Ernest Ball  and J. Keirn Brennan. Maybe you will enjoy it too!

From Eva

Dear Classmates, I love this work. I need the angels help. Oh, Judy I miss you! Also, I am giving a one-year workshop if any students live in the Mainz area and would like to learn Shiatsu.

YOU ARE NOT THE PERSON YOU TAKE YOURSELF TO BE

Good morning Dear Students.

As the sun rises in California I will respond to an email from a student in response to the angel message I posted the other day. I haven't included her name, just her words, below. 

 

For me it's a very hard exercise to think in the way you suggested, "You are not the person you take yourself to be." What remains? What is real? What can I trust? A lot of questions and still some more not so easy to put in words. I don't really expect an answer from you, but it's something I would have told you. (It's not easy to tell such things in my own language, and it's very hard to do it in English).

Gabi

Hi Gabi, I just looked at your website. What a pretty setting you have to do your work. Perhaps one day if I am ever in your part of the world, I can have a session. We have such talented people here in our school.

Awareness is the same thing as Happiness

Dearest Students, the world out there is very busy right now, at least in the USA, as people prepare for Thanksgiving. I myself will be taking part in a spiritual retreat, which is the best way I can imagine to spend a day devoted to gratitude. Since I don't eat meat, I won't be partaking of any turkey, the traditional dinner of most Americans. I thought I'd give you all a special spiritual exercise you can practice, so here it is:

Castles

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." --Thoreau.........

Our work in the school helps us to build firm foundations of truth. Thank you dear Teacher and classmates for being part of my schooling!

Helpful Reminder

Human beings experience lows and highs, and yet what we strive for on the clear and simple way is our center. When you experience a bad mood, a depression, notice how your mind tells you that it will last forever. Then remind yourself that your dark state is temporary. Do the same thing when you experience an unnatural high. Just do your best to observe the constant cycle of highs and lows, and keep remembering to remind yourself that this is temporary. Be an angel to yourself. Whisper words of truth to yourself, especially when you are in a depression or an unnatural high. Remind yourself that all darkness is false. Only Light is eternal.

Thank you Judy for the new lesson.
I like it very much. It supports my inner freedom.
Love to all
Monika

Full Moon

Looks like a full moon up there tonight, hanging behind the mist. Isn't it nice to know all over the world we look up to the same full moon, even if it looks different to each of us, depending upon where we are. Isn't it comforting to know that the same force that holds something as awesome as the stars and planets in place holds us!

BANISHING DISTRESS

Q: How does reading your lessons and practicing your homework help you in the rest of your life?

A: When a dark energy (such as ignorance and reliance upon negative thoughts) is banished inwardly (replaced by Truth), it loses all power outwardly. When there is nothing anxious within you, there is nothing distressful outside of you!

OCTOBER 2008 MESSAGE: LETTING GO OF THE PAST

I decided to take a look back into the past, to the message I wrote October 2008 on my official website. (I used to write monthly message on my website, though now it's mostly every two months. Too busy writing for our school!) I thought you might like to read it too. I especially like the idea that to our past self, we are the future self, and to our future self, we are the past self! Get it? Anyway, if you'd like to read that message, it's here: http://www.theclearandsimpleway.com/octobermessage2008.htm

SPECIAL OFFER

L.A. ANGEL WEEKEND, LOS FELIZ, CA, OCTOBER 29-30, 2011

Here is a special offer for students who have registered for the upcoming angel weekend. You may offer the seminar to another person for only $90. This means that you can split the total cost with another person in any way you like, so you pay less, or just give the seminar to someone as gift.

An NPR story

Hello Everyone. I am posting a little story here that I just read. It's from NPR (national public radio). It made me smile. I like stories that contain spiritual truth and make me smile. Maybe you will like it too. You have to click below to read it, because it's sorta long. It's called: Lessons Learned From Luggage Lost

DAWN

Dawn is just stealing over the horizon, bringing daylight to this part of the world. I enjoy the stillness of early morning, before it is fully light, alone with only the silence. Being able to be alone with only ourself is important. Otherwise, we will always be pulling at someone to fill our loneliness. We will be needy and clingy. We will see others, not as who they are, but as someone to fill our loneliness. We will pull energy from the very people we are supposed to love. We will add to their burden.

HEALING FEAR

The way to heal fear is to go against it. Do the thing you are most afraid of. This gives fear the message that it is not stronger than your heart. If you let fear rule you, then fear becomes stronger. That is, old habits of fear and limitation become stronger. Everyone is afraid all the time. It may come across as anger, frustration, control, or whatever, but the basis of all negative emotions is fear. Proceed in spite of fear. If you wait for all fear to disappear before taking a step, you will wait forever. Only by taking a step can we overcome fear. We are, of course, not talking about healthy fear, such as avoiding the snake in your path.

Sunday Morning The past is burned in the fire of time

In Oberwil, Switzerland, where I was just a few short weeks ago, the church bells are surely ringing, as they do throughout each day, along with the cowbells. I love hearing the cow bells and they remind me that at least some cows are still free to roam the hills, not locked in dark barns, unable to move at all. Although most animals have no choice but to bend to the will of man, human beings do have a choice. We can choose to walk a spiritual path. We can choose to keep on trekking, no matter how hard or dark the way may seem. And it does seem hard and dark at times.

Jamestown, NY, USA

Hi Everyone, I found myself surprised when I entered our Open Classroom today. I'd totally forgotten that I'd changed the decor. Our school is designed in a spontaneous way that lets us know that while everything on the outside changes, there is something on the inside that always remains constant....our inner self, awareness, consciousness.

living with awareness

I have been practicing living my life with awareness. It is helping me in every aspect of my life, with my job, which is important to me, as well as my relationships....mostly my relationship to myself. I am becoming less harsh and judgmental with myself. Partly this is because the more aware I am, the less mistakes I make. This allows gratitude to arise naturally within me....gratitude for the Awareness that keeps me safe and guides me every moment. I find that when I neglect my lessons that I go back to my old, unaware ways. It is so easy to fall back to sleep. The more I read the lessons and do my homework, the more awake, alert, and happier I feel. Have a great time in Switzerland and Germany Indira! I hope those people know how fortunate they are to have your presence there with them.

Oberwil, Switzerland, September 21, 2011

Hello Dear Students,
I am very happy to meet some of your classmates here in Switzerland. My body feels a bit tired, since night and day are turned upside down for me, but overall I have all the energy I need to do the work I need to do. Sharing the wisdom of the angels is always joyous. Whenever you are lacking in joy, you always have your lessons to turn to. The more you read your lessons and contemplate Truth, the more joyous you will become. This is a gradual process, so please be patient, loving, and kind with yourself as you walk the path of Light.

It does take some discipline and effort to show up for your lessons, for your homework, for your open classroom, and for Truth. It took me some effort and discipline to show up here tonight, for example, after a very long day of working, walking some miles along the lake, and a talk this evening, all while jet-lagged. But I overcame the laziness and here I am, writing these words. And I am glad I am here. Remember that when you take one step towards Truth, Truth takes two steps towards you. That's just the way the energy works. It all a choice. We can choose to be lazy and neglect our path, or we can choose to put some energy into our path each day.  Making the extra effort, especially when you don't want to, will bring great results. But don't take my word for it....try it for yourself.