My Dear Reading, listening friends:

Happy Spring! Can you feel the shift in the air, in the gentle breezes, in the songs of the birds? I certainly did, especially over this past weekend. Springing forth in a sense on all levels of a newness of life, I feel the Power, the Purity & the pastoral call renewed within & all about me.

This article is about the Power available to ALL of us within our very body gloves, the human form we chose to inhabit now.

Cutting to the chase, the Message a messianic figure in the form of a human man gave us over a few centuries ago...that got him ridiculed, dragged through the streets, spat on, then murdered in the most gruesome & public of ways is that the Kingdom of Godd is within. He was simply, & unassumingly pointing within...the Light within that actually animates us.

All these poetic similes & metaphors are contained in a library of books bound together in the Bible. A lamp on hill, the flocking of folks...simple, pure, & actually filled with physics. Modern day physics.

Metaphysics. Change always being initiated within first in order to manifest change on the outside.

So that is the Power part. We ALL have it. That is what He came to say & to demonstrate. Period.

Our point of view matters. It is a physical, a metaphysical truth.

Reading the cutting edge work of scientists around the globe, the emerging truth, the deeper layers of truth, are that the Observer actually affects the observed. You may have found this to be true in your own experiences if you stop to ponder this for a moment.

Children & parents interact in this fashion all the time, with or without awareness. Spend even a few hours watching these interactions on a playground or a park & you can see this in action. Mommy! Watch me! Watch me now! And then the fabulous leap, the mastery of the jump, the cartwheel, the courage conjured to make a smooth swan dive from a high place.

The triumphs & tragedies of life in motion are so much more dynamic when someone is witnessing them. More growth producing. Less stagnant.

Likewise, emotions that are stirred in these interactions have their own magnetism. And this seems odd, but if you live long enough you also can be more acutely tuned & aware to these too, & how they have an actual electromagnetic field or charge about them. A Universal scale, not at all special but truly a Universal law for all; the lower vibrational emotions; that makes us feel: sad, depressed, fearful, they have a lower charge...literally & figuratively.

So many common expressions in folk talk/lore indicate this as well. Feeling "under the weather", gloomy, dark feelings often can coincide with actual weather conditions outside, have you ever noticed this?

Well let us look a little deeper at the lower vibrational range & see something which may help now.

I credit my counselor in the early days of recovery from major trauma to help me see this, once she pointed it out to me. I did have that "lightbulb" experience when she did. That "ah hah!" moment that teachers & counselors get their charge out of. The pure LOVE of the chosen work in the chosen field; let us look at the relationship between fear & anger for just a moment. Once you SEE the pattern, I hope you too can use the knowledge to shift into mastery where all is much more satisfying, speaking as one who has grappled with it. Trust me. practice makes perfect.

My dear counselor Claudia Zayfert exemplified this, She had exercises to help me FEEL my way through the truth of the matter; the matter being that some emotions are like a smog or fog. They occlude clarity, they soften light coming through windows.

Claudia helped me tame my rage.

Here is what she pointed out. Fear is not a place we LIKE to be. Engulfed by it. It is terrifying. It makes us feel without power of any kind & at the mercy of forces far more powerful than ourselves. In times since my meetings with her this was born out repeatedly as world events showed us in aftermaths of cataclysmic Earth changes; hurricanes, quakes, tsunamis. Terrifying forces of nature bearing down on small vulnerable bodies containing spirit...

Researchers discovered most of the deaths after the hurricanes that ravaged New Orleans died; not of the natural events themselves, but of the panic & fear that overwhelmed those spirits in bodies. Floods of cortisol & other biochemicals overwhelmed the Observer, the calm, rational state of the persons who floated up as corpses...it truly was FEAR that killed.

So, again a truth rings out, a world leader, said "we have nothing to fear but fear itself."

Not just a catchy political statement. A FACT. Born out by our ever increasing analytical technologies that brought us this metaphysical truth home again. And again & again.

Those police who panicked & drew guns too quickly, mistaking a move on the part of a prey & shot prematurely, shot from fear, ...& death, needless death arising again, & again & again....

Metaphysical truth.

Because here is the pearl she polished & held up to the light for me; the fastest way to get out of fearful states is to convert them into ANGER.

Now there is power! Anger motivates, anger is like gasoline, it can ignite so quickly.
Anger is the fuel the natural body NEEDS sometimes to catalyze us out of danger, an adrenaline rush, so quicksilver we hardly believe it has caught us upward & out of the situation we can not STAND for!

Yes, ANGER can liberate. And yes, anger needs to be handled with as much care as gasoline whether propane or liquid. This is the Pearl I shall forever cherish this dear sister for handing me, in the aftermath of surviving a near death experience in my own journey.

I pass it along to you dear ones as well. Anger needs an outlet. A safe one. When I asked her about how to discharge this safely & why she did not react when I spoke loudly & forcefully to her in our sessions she replied with this metaphor;
Anger does not lessen in intensity when it is mirrored back.

For me (she, the counselor) to react to you with anger will do neither of us any good. It is like throwing gas on a fire. It only flares up & is very unstable.

"So what do you do then?" I asked her. Her work was to help me revisit, over & over again the most fear-ridden aspects of my trauma experience to really zone in on the most fear provoking of them, & to desensitize to those moments by the sheer repetition of the hearing of my own voice telling about those peak fearful moments again & again until the emotional intensity of them reduced, by my own self-examination from near 100 percent down to near zero. We made tapes so I could listen to me & the telling of it, over & over again.

Getting to zero point. That was the key. This method worked at that point in time for me. So I offer it to you as a freebie. With an invitation to experiment with the method. There are others. But the process is a sure one...Noticing, observing with real honesty within your own safe place, whatever that may look like for you, is worth the risk of the experiment. It will do no harm, it may help you master the lower vibrational spectrum of emotions...which, incidently appear universally to correspond with colors too, ever notice that?

"Seeing red"...Notice, acknowledge...take a deep breath...& then, just maybe, you may feel better moving yourself, your own emotions into a higher vibration...from red, into orange, into yellow (power), into green, into teal, into blues, into purple...their is your rainbow of emotions to master...the Light within is your own...to turn up the heat or turn it down, just like the oil lamps of old...this is where the purity comes in. As we each turn the keys to our own lamps we co create a more Light-filled, peaceful, calm place wherever our lamps are still lit. Sitting still...sometime pecking away as a tiny newbirthing bird out of the shell of old, outmoded belief, tapes of childhood abuse, terrifying movie-like ,moments with huge forces seemingly without our own "windows" our own eyes to the outside world...

Being a pastoral sort, means being gentle. Gentle with ourselves first, by noticing these metaphysical movements within & then playing with the keys. A shepherd is gentle but highly Observant. Watches for predators at night to guard against wolves & foxes who would break past the shepherd's vigilance to steal the eggs, or grab the hens or bite the jugulars of the sheep. Sheep have a herd mentality. The Shepherd knows this.

Being like that Man of a couple thousand years ago is to BE the shepherd. Not write lectures about Him or long dissertations that satisfy the intellect alone. The Shepherd has the heart & head working in synergistic fashion together at all times. How about you?