When Things Come Together in a New Way

 "Volcano" by Bettina Madini

Watercolor and ink on paper

22"h x 30"W

When Gary Douglas says that our creations have a life force of their own, I can just say "Yes! Totally!" I so know this from painting! How often have I tried to 'fight' a painting! Sort of "What? I don't want to paint you!" .... (so cute!....) 

Yet, if I allow them to move through, and I create with them, and I don't have a point of view or even thought (thoughts never help, ever noticed?), and I be the space of creation, magic is there, with me! 

"Volcano" came out of the Blue. Didn't have it as an idea, didn't 'compose it' cognitively and created it in the moment. From the Space of Creation!

Creation Space - Meditation by Bettina

I recorded this meditation today! "Creation Space"

Enter the Space of Creation and Be it! For the creation of a future that you would enjoy!

Happy New Year to you!

If you could create anything, what would you create? What do you want your life to be like? What would you like to create for the future? And what if that was not solid, but rather an energy?
This meditation guides you into being the space of you! The space of all possibilities! Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/bettina-madini/creation-space-meditation-bettina-star-rose-for-the-future-you-desire 

Please feel free to download the file!

When Things Seem Out of Control

 "Sky Being", by Bettina

Things seem to be pretty much out of control right now in my life. It’s not that crazy-frenzy-type-out-of-control, but more of a wide-open-space-out-of-control. I cannot  even imagine what the next three months will be like. I have no idea what I am going to create. Nothing seems solid, and anything seems possible.

Do you have that in your universe too? It could be easy to go into freak-out about that. Yet, what if, instead, we were in wonder? What that means is to not make this space, the out-of-control-space, wrong. What if it is the mind freaking out, desperately trying to figure it out, to decide and conclude? What if, at this point, our minds don’t work any more? I ask “Is this part of the change I have been asking for?” And the answer is “Yes!”.

Another wonderful tool to use is “What’s right about this I’m not getting?” I just introduced this tool, this question, in a class yesterday, and it opened space for everyone, and joy was there, and excitement. What if we don’t make the un-solidity wrong? When I ask this question, my entire universe opens up. There is only wide open space. There is infinite possibility. So, with that space, I keep asking questions. Such as “What would I like to create now?”, or “What can I create that will be so much fun and such a contribution to consciousness and to the earth?”

Guess what, the space opens further and there is no freak-out!

Now, I wonder, what if we all have opened a door to a new possibility for being on the planet? And, more even, what if we all have stepped through that door into wide open space of infinite possibility? There is no solidity. Solidity exists where we have made something solid, where we have decided what has to be, what better be, what must be. Where we have concluded from past experience, which is always finite. What if there is no past? Do you also get the sense of freshness and excitement right now? What CAN we create from here? What would you like your life to be like? You as infinite being, yes YOU, what would you like to create? What vision do YOU have of a possibility for being on the planet that includes all, that includes you, that includes the earth? For a sustainable future on the planet?

And what if this knowing of a future is not solid, as it is not yet? The ‘whispers from the future’ are like a feather touch. A breeze. Light and motion. What if the wide open space is an invitation for us all to create something different? Where we don’t lock the energy into a conclusion, an outcome, a result? Instead we stay in question. “What do I do with this?” or “What can I create here that I have never created?” “What else is possible now that I have never considered? And “What can I choose today that I have never chosen?”

What does this create for you? For me, there is such joy of possibility here! There are infinite colors!

One of the things I’m really good at and have great fun with is painting. And I have always wondered what more colors are available that I haven’t seen yet, touched yet, bathed in, enthused about, played with, feathered, danced, laughed with, explored, enjoyed, sung with, breathed in, exhaled, marveled, mused, birthed?

Oh, my friends, what if we all say yes to the invitation to a dance beyond this reality, and we composed the "Infinite Greatness of Living" Symphony? Are you willing to spread your wings and fly?

What if you Could Quiet your mind?

The joy of quieting your mind and the benefit of it is not a new idea. There are ways that have been around for quite some time, like meditation, yoga, breathing and many other approaches and techniques. I used to practice many of those regularly, for many years. They would create great ease in my life and bring me to a happier place. Yet, that wouldn’t last.

Whenever I went out into the world, I would get dragged back into negative thinking, sadness, upset and frustration. What was that? I could, of course, choose to go live in a cave or a monastery and not go out into the world. I could just live the life of a hermit. This didn’t feel very appealing to me, not this time around.

After all these years of practice, what was it that kept me from being the happy being I knew I was, all the time? Whether theta or delta wave meditation, gong or energy balancing, what kept me from going beyond the walls that I sensed in my universe? What kept them in place?

On top of that, I knew something different was possible. I knew that already when I was a child! I knew that the greyness of the masses wasn’t my reality, and wandering blindfoldedly and numbly around in this world and performing repetitive tasks was not what I would choose. No! Not for me! I always loved being out there, I loved creating, I loved the wonder of this world! And I have so many dreams!

How was it possible that, with all the meditations, chantings, praying, healing singing and everything else, the planet was in such a state of destruction? What was it that kept the mind active? This monotonous repetitive thinking?  The easy buy into upset, intrigue and frustration?

I had an urge in me to find what that was! There was something that I couldn’t quiet down. Something that I somehow remembered, without knowing what that exactly was. And whatever it was, it was very real and possible to me. I knew my dreams were not utopia! They were real! They were possible!

I have been reading in spiritual newsletters and changelings for years how important it is to empty the mind and to not think. I could get to a space of bliss, then, yet only temporarily. I didn’t have the tools that would help me to be there, all the time, and to make a sustainable difference in my world.

Just recently, I read again about how we create from thoughts, feelings and emotions. And if we don’t watch out what we’re thinking, any destructive thoughts would also show up in our lives as what we were creating.

Do you remember moments when you didn’t have thoughts? Or, asking the other way around, when you had your last moment of joy, expansion, happiness, in that very moment, did you experience drag and impossibility? Or was your universe full of possibility? Did you then run into someone and have an amazing conversation? Were you inspired? Did you have great ideas?

I’m talking about that space! Ever noticed that there are no thoughts in that space?

What if everything you always dreamed of, what if this was something you knew was possible? What if we could have and be that inspired space all the time? And, where and when did you allow the naysayers to spoil your dream?

Does John Lennon’s “Imagine” move you, at all? “You can say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one. I know some day you’ll join us. And the world will be as one.” What if we never give up our dreams, not for anybody? We could choose to be in allowance of everybody’s points of view and still not give up our visions and dreams.

I am a dreamer, I have always been.  Then, these years back, I somehow got caught in the net of impossibility, caught by the invisible fisherman of this reality. Luckily, I had built into my blueprint map of this lifetime, these possibilities for encounters with amazing people, friends from many lifetimes. They always pop up in my life, at these incredible intersections!

So, through several, seemingly ‘random’ encounters in 2012, I came across Access Bars®, an energy technique that assists in letting go of limitations and judgments, just by gently touching certain points on the head. I had my first session, then, and it created the space of being that I knew was possible. And that space wouldn’t shrink when I went into the world.  It made a sustainable difference for me. It is possible to quiet the mind and to be the space of you.

Would you please allow me to be that friend for you, popping out of nowhere today and tapping on your shoulder gently asking ‘Hey my friend, what if there was a different possibility?”

What dreams do you know are possible? And, if you bought into the lies of this reality, what if you can change that? What if you still are the dreamer?  What inspiration can you be for the world?

Interesting Point of View

 

Today, I would like to touch a subject that so many people don’t like or don’t want to talk about: money. In my family, luckily, I learned that it’s ok to talk about anything, to bring up anything! So, we did talk money. And for me, that was ‘normal’. Later on in my life, I learned that for many people it was a tabu. Money was the thing that was bad or hidden, a secret, or just not ‘ethical’ to talk about. That didn’t make sense to me at all. And in the past 2 years, I have been talking about money and points of views around and about money openly in my classes. And I am so grateful for the tools that I have received from Access Consciousness®. Also, I found so many limitations with money that I had in my own universe!

Interestingly enough, whatever we think about money reveals quite a bit about ourselves and the ways we limit ourselves.

I encounter a lot of people who have points of view about what they can ‘afford’. Be it for buying a painting, choosing a class and having points of view about the price, etc. And I found also that there were certain amounts of money that would trigger a ‘that’s too much’ in my universe too! Very much like a ‘threshold’ that would make me back off. Especially when it was about a class that I would love to take! All the joy that I had sensed about the class energetically and what it would contribute to me, evaporated in a cold, shrinking blaze! Paying $2000 for a class for me was just way outside of my universe! Wow! What was that? What was I actually creating with money? And what if that was not true? What if there was no amount of money that was too much? What if we could create any amount of money, any time?

On top of that, how much receiving had I cut off? Would that same money barrier limit what I was willing to receive? How much was I actually using money as an excuse not to choose what would expand my life?

And was all that actually true for me? Or who’s point of view had I bought?

I remember, once I bought a pair of sunglasses for 250 EUR. That almost blew me, yet I loved them so much that I just did it. Afterwards, I had to do quite some work in order to let go of the negative thoughts that I had come up within me, like “Who do you think you are?” Do you know that one? This was 15 years ago, and I didn’t have the tools yet that I have today. Today I would reply “Who do YOU think that I’m NOT?” and “By the way, who are you? And what are you doing here?”

I had bought so many beliefs and points of view and limitations from my family, from memories that they had from war times, deprivation, starvation and lack! What if we never took any point of view as real? Any point of view, be it positive or negative, will always put us into polarity and will make us agree or resist. None of these will actually give us choice. None of them will allow us to expand beyond this reality and create our own reality.

Here’s a couple of things you can try out when negative thoughts and beliefs come up:

1. Say “Interesting point of view that I have this point of view!®” This might shift the energy of the situation right away. What if everything is just an interesting point of view?

2. Ask “Who does this belong to?®” It might lighten up right away. The heaviness might go away right away! It then was not your point of view to begin with.

3. Ask “Is this my reality?” and “What would my reality be?” What IS your reality? Do YOU actually believe that there is only a limited amount of money that you can receive? Or would your reality have money come to you magically from everywhere? Effortlessly? Easily? Without even thinking about it?

4. Get your “Bars® run”! If you never have received this amazing energy work called “The Bars®”, you might want to consider this treat for you and your body. The Bars® are certain points on your head that the facilitator will gently touch while you lie down and relax and receive the energy. These points are related to all kind of areas of life, such as joy, sadness, creativity, body, healing, control, awareness, sex, aging and money. Touching these points will allow the body and you, the being, to let go of any judgments and limitations in these areas, no matter when you created them. Find a practitioner in your area here: http://bars.accessconsciousness.com/

What CAN you create if you don’t have a point of view about anything? Can you receive more money if you don’t have a point of view about what amount of money is too much to pay out?

What if you could create your life from the awareness of what your choice will create for you? Rather than allowing money to choose for you?

What if truly anything IS possible?

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 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®. Read more about Access Consciousness® at www.AccessConsciousness.com.

A Wonderfully Gloomy Day - What's Your Reality?

I was slipping into some dragging energy earlier today, some winy-sad-ish type of 'gloom'. It would have been very easy to drag myself into the complainer-point of view, how nothing was right, how nobody would make me something tasty to eat, and how my grandmother and my mother were the only ones who would have a cup of coffee for me, how gloomy the day was... and, oops, this was the moment when I caught it! What was that? A gloomy day? "That's an interesting point of view!", I thought!

What makes a day gloomy? Not too long ago I was wishing for rain and so happy when it arrived! So, I started asking a question! What else could I choose here? I know I love nature! I do love rain! I love wind! Of course, I love the sun and a warm breeze, too! Yet, what makes rain and cold wind wrong or bad? What if this was just a point of view? The energy started shifting!

I wondered, what else I could choose? I asked my body! Painting? Emm, no! Knitting? No. Running, walking? Nooo. Cookies? Oh, there was light in my world! The sun was rising, and my body jumped with excitement. Ok, so cookies then! All of a sudden, it was really fun to make my favorite cookies! (which are, by the way, shortbread cookies!) I had some dried lavender flowers from my garden and sprinkled them on some of them! Lots of butter! You have to have lots of butter! My body loves it! And honey! 

I was singing while the oven heated up! Oh, how 'snugglish'! And the smell when they were baking! You don't get that in the summer! Even if you would be baking, it would not be the same! There is something about baking aromas on a cold day! I went in the garden and picked some of the last, red and totally tasty apples, picked some mint for fresh mint tea and some of the last zinnias for prettiness.

It turned out to feel like a feast! (It still IS a feast!) The energy had totally shifted, and I was and still am so grateful for each ingredient on my banquet table! 

 It is SO true! Your point of view does create your reality! I shifted my point of view, and my reality changed! All of a sudden, I heard the fairies giggle again, the leaves laughing on their wild-wind-ride, I sensed the gratitude of the earth for the rain and the joy of living!

I wonder who's point of view I had bought into? What if we had no point of view about weather or the forecasts? What if we had no point of view about snow or rain or sun or wind or..... Once a wise man said to me "There is no bad weather, there is only the wrong clothes!"

So, here I am celebrating the moment! My reality includes the magic of changing the energy of a moment! Where I can make a different choice. Nothing is real, nothing is true. Everything is just an interesting point of view.

What's your reality?

Sending you sunshine and snowy raindrops! (with fairy sparkles, of course!)

Turn around!

I had one of those days yesterday….  I had concluded that ‘nothing was working’… and I was all alone in the universe….  I stood again in front of a wall! What would it take for me to move beyond it? Was this even true? All this creative energy was welling up inside of me like a huge tsunami, an explosion that wanted to make me scream!!!! (or roar!....)

What’s going on here? What is this wall?

Ok, I thought, meditate on this one. I hadn’t went into what I call ‘my inner circle’ for many years. In a way I had always considered it my ‘LaLaLand’ and not really taken it for ‘real’. (HmHm?)

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking now! Cute, yet not very bright. … Yes! Am I good at judging me for everything I be and do and like? Yeah. I’m not only good, I’m brilliant!  ….

Well, anyway, I chose to go into my ‘inner circle’. To my surprise, everybody was still there! The beings of light that I had not visited in many years still were there for me…. (Bewildered, I thought, so, what if this is not LaLaLand? Could this be real? And what if it’s real for me? And what if that’s ok? (more cuteness….)) Humbled by the awareness of what is true for me, I asked ‘What is this wall?’ And, again, I sensed it in front of me, high and made of steel and brick, solid and unwavering. My guides looked at me silently and a bit amused. “What’s so entertaining about me?”, I thought. And inside of me I heard a whisper. Kindly and slightly smiling, the voice said “Turn around!” I almost heard a giggle when I did turn around. What I saw took my breath for the fraction of a second… Wide open space, above the clouds, amazing colors, pink, blue, gold, purple, green and red, all colors of the rainbow! Everything was clear, fresh and open. Everything is possible here! There is an invitation here. It’s like “Come and play! What would you like to create? What if anything is possible now? What if the struggle is over and past?”

So, all this time I had stood there by the wall, desperately trying to move beyond while all possibilities were there already? I turned around briefly and saw that brick metal wall. It was further away now and didn’t look menacing any longer. I realized that it was actually the past! I had moved beyond it already and I had been standing by it, pinned to it on the other side. Had I been THAT used to that wall? Was it SO familiar to me that I stayed by it, thinking it was still there, not realizing that I could move on, freely???    Wow! I started laughing!

How many of you are still standing by the familiar grounds of your wall(s), thinking it’s still yours? What if you turned around?

How much are we used to our limitations and judgments? How often do we actually check on the past? Like “Wait a minute! Let me see how that was! That was so familiar! I can relate to it, as I had bought it as being me! Why don’t I stay there a little longer?” and then we forget that we can actually turn around and leave that illusionary ‘safe haven’ behind?

What if we don’t need to hold onto some kind of "safety net", the steel rod on the trapeze any longer, but open our wings and fly? Would an infinite being have to hold onto anything or anyone?

Would you be willing to turn around, please?