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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

What if having a body can be truly magical?


"Golden Age" by Bettina
"Your body is an integral part of becoming all of you. It's about becoming who you are. “
- Gary Douglas and Dr. Dain Heer*

I read this morning a paragraph in an amazing book*! And it brought tears of gratitude for my body and such an expansion into my universe!

Gosh, my friends, how much do we not honor and trust our bodies in this reality…? How much do we learn to not even be aware of our bodies, and rather judge it, 24-7? Judgment is not awareness. It actually cuts of our awareness.

In the spiritual community, we learn that bliss is outside of the body and ‘ascension’ is rising out of the body and that 'paradise' is something we get to without the body, out-of-the-body experiences are highlighted, near-death experiences are ‘the thing’, or guys who got hit several times by lightning are interesting and awe-inspiring, or those who torture their bodies for 'insight' and 'overcoming something' are the heroes. That's a lot of pain infliction upon bodies.... Does that make you feel light? It makes me feel very heavy and angry. And, please, if any of that works for you, that’s great. I’m not judging it; it’s a choice. What I’m saying is that this reality conveys to us in many shades and suggestions that bodies are a wrongness, and that they need to be fixed if they don’t function, more like a car. They need to run, work, better not complain, not hurt etc. If they don’t function and do what we decided they have to do (because we own them as our bodies), or look the way they should look, we make them wrong.

Why would pain and suffering and judgment be more valuable? These are all points of view that are not the sum total of what IS possible here on the planet. What if kindness and gentleness with our bodies, honoring our bodies and acknowledging them for the gifts they are was the most valuable and beautiful space to be and practice and start the day with and be reminded of, all the time?

What if we ‘inflicted’ gratitude and joy upon our bodies? Would that create something different? What if our bodies are more than we ever thought possible? What amazing and phenomenal reality CAN we create WITH our bodies? What if our bodies are NOT the fixer-uppers that we made them into? Like, oh, if I just eat right, or if I just loose weight, or if I just went to the gym often enough, if I just had blue skin and purple eyes, then, I would be perfect! Which is, generalized, "Oh if things were just different than they what are, all would be great and I would be fixed!" And guess what? If we have that point of view of 'fixing' as the number one priority, than we will always find and even create something to fix!

What if nothing needs fixing? Fixing is based on judgment and wrongness. What if your body doesn't require fixing? What if we were willing to change our points of view about our bodies? What if we were present in our lives, all the time, and with our bodies?

Would it be possible for us to be that space of consciousness that allows us to BE everything we desire WITH our bodies? Where we would be aware of the earth, of each and every molecule, where we could connect to all the spaces and places on, in and beyond the earth and RECEIVE the gifts that the earth and the universe have been trying to gift us?

Now, allow me to go a step further: What if we came here to the earth, because this planet has gifts for us as infinite beings with bodies of infinite beings, gifts that are not available anywhere else …. in the universe?

Have you ever considered that it might not even be possible to become fully conscious if you leave your body outside of the equation?

And what if there were gifts that we can only receive WITH our bodies? What IS possible WITH bodies that we have never even started to fathom? I listened to a presentation yesterday, and the speaker underscored the vital importance of cuddling and kindness, tenderness and caring for the development of a baby. Then, she continued that, if we have NOT received that within the first 3 years of our lives, that we cannot 'mend' that lack.  Is that actually true that we cannot change that and create a different reality?  I wonder, even if we haven’t received it as babies, growing up in a world of anger and fight and lack of caring, what kindness and caring CAN we be? Not only for others but also for ourselves? What if we were that kindness for our bodies? And asked our body "Hey body, what do you require?" "What do YOU desire?" instead of imposing our points of view upon our body.

There is stuff that we have literally locked into our bodies that cannot 'just be un-done'. Judgments and points of view that we locked into our bodies, energetically, that sit there like ‘pockets’ of thoughts, feeling and emotions and all kinds of other things that we aligned and agreed with or resisted and reacted to. To me, they are like invisible walls. It’s when we go into reaction, sort of auto-pilot. They get triggered by something, and we react.

Even if we let go of limitations and judgments, our bodies require our attention and care to un-do some of these ‘energetic pockets’. They can be addressed with some amazing energy work that I have come across several years ago. It’s the Access Consciousness® Bars® and body processes. 

Here is a quote from the book that I read this morning, and this is what brought tears of gratitude for my body: "Your body is an integral part of becoming all of you. It's about becoming who you are. That's the reason we created the body processes."* - Gary Douglas and Dr. Dain Heer, founders of Access Consciousness®, a 20 year old pragmatic philosophy that has been taught world-wide to groups and individuals.

I’m one of those who loved Harry Potter and Hogwarts. And I wonder, what if we don’t have to go to some ‘magical place’ like a school, temple or sacred place to be the magic? What if we can be that space, energy and consciousness all the time, in this reality? And create, with our bodies, that know so much more than we think they do, a phenomenal reality? A reality that is filled with ease and joy of living? Where what we desire shows up with ease and joy and magic?

I knew from my earliest childhood years that THIS IS POSSIBLE! That there is a magic of being that is beyond incantations, wands, curses and all that kind of magic. It’s a space of being with the body. And I got all frustrated, not only as I didn’t see it around me, at all, but mostly as I couldn’t be that space. And my entire life I have been looking for how I CAN CREATE what I know is possible?

What if NOW IS THE TIME TO BE THAT????

And, beautiful friends, we with our bodies HERE ON the earth, with the earth CAN create something totally amazing and phenomenal and magical that is so light and ease-filled and joy-infused.  I’ve no idea what that will look like. It’s an awareness of an energy and possibility. And even if I don’t have an answer as to what exactly I’m even talking about, I know it, and I know we can create it, have it and be it. It gives me such joy and sparkles and a ‘gusto of living’ that makes me dance!

What would it take for us to bring this to fruition? What energy space and consciousness can we be with our bodies that would allow us to generate, create and actualize that as our reality?

What if you as being are much more powerful and potent and magical than you have ever wanted to know and acknowledge? Would now be the time, my friend, to find out what else IS possible®**?
And would you be willing to consider the possibility of including your body in the journey?

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* from: "Living Beyond Distraction" by Gary Douglas and Dr. Dain Heer, p.37

** “What else is possible?” is a pragmatic tool of Access Consciousness®.
Access Consciousness® was founded by Gary Douglas, one of the most brilliant people on the planet, and is created by Gary Douglas and Dr. Dain Heer. All the tools in this article are derived from Access Consciousness®. Read more about Access Consciousness® at www.AccessConsciousness.com. Find out about the Bars® at www.bars.accessconsciousness.com. Access Consciousness has more than 50 body processes that can address anything that we have created with our bodies. Please find out more at www.body.accessconsciousness.com.

Bettina Madini is an artist, singer and an Access Consciousness® Certified Facilitator. Born in Berlin, Germany, she is currently living in the Midwest in the United States. Bettina’s paintings can be found in corporate and private collections in Europe, Australia and in the United States. She offers Painting workshops, coaches Creatives and facilitates Access Consciousness® Core Classes, internationally. 

To find Bettina’s classes and see her art work please visit:  www.BettinaStar-Rose.com.

Monday, June 8, 2015

Four Steps to shift Discomfort into the Gift it Can Be




What do you do when things seem so ‘weird’, so uncomfortable, when nothing seems right, and you feel like on the wrong planet?

Have you noticed, lately, things have been pretty uncomfortable? You might experience tiredness, so tired that you could just drop and sleep! Or, things don’t seem to be ‘working’ any more. Whatever you used to do, it doesn’t have the same ‘effect’ any longer. Does it feel like banging your head against a brick wall?

When things change, it might get pretty uncomfortable. Now, usually, in this reality, we learn that we have to strive for ‘feeling good’, being happy, more even making others happy by always showing a happy face, being productive etc.

Would you like to change your perspective? If we change how we look at things, that very thing we look at can actually change. Curious?

There are ways to shift that discomfort. My question is: What if that discomfort is the threshold into something amazing? What if it is the invisible line that separates us from that which we really desire?

Here are some simple and pragmatic tools* you can use to explore a different possibility:

1. Ask “Who does this belong to?”®
What if it isn’t yours? We all pick up on thoughts and feelings of others. Ever noticed? You think of someone, and they call you a minute later. You think of a book that you would like to get, and the same day a friend offers it to you.  What if we are more intuitive/psychic than we have ever acknowledged? So, would it be possible that we pick up on our neighbors ‘grumpiness’? And, how many people are depressed and sad? Would we then, with our ‘antennas’ be aware of that, perceive it and experience it in ourselves? Oh, yes! And then, we think it’s ours and run with it! We take a pill for somebody else’s depression. If you ask the question “Who does this belong to?®” and it lightens up and your discomfort goes away, it wasn’t yours to begin with.

2. What’s right about this I’m not getting?®
The next thing is, don’t make it wrong.  If you make discomfort wrong you resist it and you spend an enormous amount of energy on it, and you will attract more of it. It’s like invisible walls that you set up. Could anything other than discomfort get to you through the walls? No.
What we resist, we make even stronger. Have you ever noticed? When I go into “Oh, I feel so bad today!”, “I have a bad day!” that makes it even worse. It’s like going down into the rabbit hole. And it takes quite an effort to get back out. In the past it could take me up to several days to be ‘back’. When I use these questions now, I come off of that track into the rabbit hole pretty fast, before I even get in there.

3. How can you use this energy to your advantage?
What if the discomfort is simply energy? What if there is no positive and no negative? What if it just simply is? What if you can be in allowance of it? Which means you let it flow through you. When we fight it, there is a funny thing that we create. Whatever we fight, we actually take, we make it solid and real. We have to resist it. And this takes a huge amount of energy. I remember once, I painted a painting, and it didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to be. It was different. I had defined myself as an ‘abstract’ artist, and here were beings appearing in the painting. I made that so wrong, I felt such a discomfort not only in my being but in my body. I locked it into my body, and my poor body had stomach cramps, heart palpitations and panic. It took me about 3 days to get out of that. Had I known these tools, then, I might have asked “How can I use this energy to my advantage?” and shifted it right away. It could have taken me to allowance. I could have chosen to allow that discomfort to nurture and grow me.

4. Is this discomfort part of the change you have been asking for?
Have you asked for change in some area of your life, or your entire life? Yes? It might be that change is actually showing up for you. It might just not be the way you expected it. When things change, we literally loose our reference points. It’s like the walls of our box go away. And what’s wrong about that? What if the discomfort is part of something amazing that the universe tries to bring to you?
We are so funny. We ask the universe to bring us change, like a new job, a different place to live, a different career. So, the universe goes and rearranges itself, and our energy field changes. Literally, the molecules rearrange themselves and it’s all different, and we go into freak-out and scream “NO!”. We ask for change, and then we refuse to be aware and sense that change. As always, the universe listens and says, “Oh, ok! I thought you wanted change! Ok, then not!” and goes about its job. We go back into the ‘usual’, the comfort zone,  only to complain then saying “Oh, things are not working! I can’t get the change that I desire!” When we choose to change things, well they do. It might be that our points of view change, that our reality changes, everything changes. And it might not be the way we decided it ‘better be’. 

What ease can you have with the discomfort? Have you ever asked for ease for your life? Or are you used to fighting for it?

Things are shifting and changing fast right now on the planet. Change has always been, and there will always be change. The question is what would you like to create? What would you like your life to be like? These questions are opening doors that we don’t even know exist. If we don’t make anything wrong, this creates such ease. We stay present with what is and don’t run.

I wonder, what if we used curiosity instead of resistance? Like an explorer! Would you like to find out what is beyond this discomfort? Could it be a new territory,  a new world, the space of you that you have not known before?

Keep breathing and wondering and walking and asking questions.

I wonder what amazing possibilities you will create?


Bettina Madini is an artist, singer and an Access Consciousness® Certified Facilitator. Born in Berlin, Germany, she is currently living in the Midwest in the United States. Bettina’s paintings can be found in corporate and private collections in Europe, Australia and in the United States. She offers Painting workshops, coaches Creatives and facilitates Access Consciousness® Core Classes, internationally. 

To find Bettina’s classes and see her art work please visit:  www.BettinaStar-Rose.com.

All the tools in this article are derived from Access Consciousness®. Access Consciousness® was founded by Gary Douglas. You can read more about Access Consciousness® at www.AccessConsciousness.com.



* all tools derived from Access Consciousness®. More at AccessConsciousness.com.