• Move back to Austin

  Dallas was awesome. I met so many wonderful new people. And experienced perfect contrast. It was a bit like going to the wilderness so I could find myself. That may sound like I’m putting Dallas down. I’m not — Dallas was the “wilderness” that is unfamiliar and is outside the known.

  Coming back to Austin was coming back home. Home, not only where my birth family and my chosen family lives, but also where all the old pieces of self that wanted attention, wanted healing, wanted to evolve… Where all these old aspects were waiting, patiently, for me to be done with that adventure and finally here them, once and for all.

• Finding a MasterMind group

  The power of a MasterMind group is a big topic right now in the personal development blogosphere. I’m not piling on here. I just want to say that now I understand why so many have told me for years that being a member of a structured and dedicated MasterMind group is so powerful. It really is.

  I am so in love with this group and I am deeply appreciative of each one of the members. Each one of us is passionate about creating and living a life of abundance, love, and joy. And so we are!

• Sharing a home with my mom

  When I moved back to Austin, my mom opened her home to me. What a powerful gift! I learned so much from her. We have lived together as adults in the past, but this was fully conscious, fully engaged. And it was a real gift to be able to share what I have been discovering this year with her.

• Reconnecting with old friends

  Moving back to Austin was just the beginning of reconnecting with old friends. There were all the people that I had been missing for a year. And then, all of sudden, Facebook appeared in my life.

  Suddenly, there are friends from high school, both in Lubbock and La Serena… old boyfriends… new friends… But Facebook is amazing — every time I log on it seems as though I get a chance to reconnect with someone else.

  The feeling that all of this evokes is a kind of delicious completion without any endings… Very nice!

• Finally getting it about creating money

  I’ve written about this here and elsewhere.

  Here is the bottom line: When I ask for I want, it comes. Oddly enough, this means that I can’t just wish for it. I can’t just hope it will happen.

  Money comes to me once I find the image of what it will look like when the manifestation has occurred and then find the feeling of receiving it. Bringing those two together is the real secret. How it happens is none of my business.

  My job is to decide what I want, ask for it, let it go, and act on the inspiration that ALWAYS comes. The more I let go — the more I reach for the better feeling thoughts persistently — the quicker that I can get ok with it not coming — the quicker it comes. I love the fact that I now understand this.

• Wonderful new relationships

  This year has been full of new relationships. I found a new love in my life this year in the most unexpected way. And loved myself (and him) enough to know when it was time to let go and say goodbye.

  I am constantly amazed at the love and joy that I get to share with new friends, some of whom are also clients. I almost don’t have words for this, but I always work with and play with the most amazing human beings. The more I get to know them, the more in awe I find myself. So much love, so much creativity, so much power, and so very much joy…

  These are not perfected human beings. These are human beings who are learning to remember who they are and how perfect they are in so many, many ways.

• Admitting the truth that I am a channel

  Saying this out loud, writing about it, and living from this truth has felt like a second coming out of the closet. There are still people that I feel I want to sit down with and explain it to them, like I did when I came out as gay when I was 18. I wonder what they will think. And, as before, I eventually realize that what they think is really none of my business.

  I am so grateful that I can stop pretending to be or do something different. What this means is still not completely clear to me. Like everything else, it is an unfolding story as I get clearer and clearer about what I want to experience.

  Of course, the best part of being a channel is that I get to introduce the Communion of Light to so many people. It’s such an honor to be there when that happens. The Communion is unfailing in their gift of clarity — they see us as we already are. And they are insistent on treating us as we are: their equals — even when we believe that we are something less than magnificent.

  They are gentle, yet prodding. They are direct, but they have a very dry wit that comes out at the most unexpected moments. They see us for who we really are and have an infinite patience while we sort all of that out. Every time I get to blend my energy with theirs, my gratitude is so deep.

  I specifically want to thank the ones who are sharing this three-dimensional reality with me who have helped me get ok with being a channel: Paul, Slade, Dennis, Lori, Kevin, my mom, Doug, David T., Nick, Sandi, Christine, Jason, Carmen, and Jen. All of you have helped me ground this magnificent and wild ride and I really can’t thank you enough for that.

Wow — what a wonderful year this has been!

I was led to create this list after reading Slade Roberson’s latest post at Shift Your Spirits. He issued a challenge of sorts to come up with a gratitude list for 2008.

You could do the same thing. Take a pen and paper. Or make a list here in the comments. Or post one on your own blog (be sure to leave a comment with a link so we can all read about your wonderful year).

The great thing about sharing your list is that you are bringing focus to all the good that came forth in your life as well as offering new possibilities for others to think about.

Personally, I can’t wait to read all about your year. So share away!!

As you do so, by the way, you are quietly planting seeds for the new year. Not a to-do list. But the thoughts and feelings that, when they combine, become the fuel for the next experiences that are coming into your life.

What do you want to have happen in the next year? What new adventures are you calling forth? How much joy? How much abundance? How much love?

Dream big. Feel what it feels like. See yourself having it. Tell the new story. Draw a picture. Film a movie of it in your mind. Combine your image, your concept, with the feeling of what it will feel like in the moment after the manifestation.

Then… let it all go. Take a deep breath and give it over to God, Goddess, the Universe, Infinite Intelligence, the Christ within you — whatever form your higher power takes. If you want, let it go with a ritual — burning bowl, pressing the delete key, tossing sand into the ocean, whatever works for you.

Now is the time for trust.

If you live in the northern hemisphere, the earth is still far away from the sun. The days are short and the nights are long. And we have the promise of a brighter, sunnier, warmer day to come. It is coming. You can trust. Right now.

If you live in the southern hemisphere, you know all about the brightness of new beginnings. You see all the beauty of creation everywhere you look. The sun is warm and high in the sky. The days are long and summer is in high gear. You know that anything is possible. Your dreams are coming true. Right now.

The great thing about the Law of Attraction is that you only have to offer a bit of a vibration in the direction you want to go and then the Universe begins to respond. Quickly. So, offer your vibration of trust. Begin to tell the new story about how your life is more and more wonderful, how you are trusting in your own creative power, and the inevitability of the Universe bringing you what you desire. This is a new year, after all. Enjoy it immensely!!

We are not overly concerned about every small thing that happens in the scheme of things. And we would recommend that you not be either.

As you may be observing from your own perspective, there is a shift occurring in the economic reality of your experience. For some, this may impact you directly. For others, this may be an event that seems to be happening far away or only to other people.

Whatever your perspective may be, we would invite you to see this upheaval and transformation as an excellent opportunity to become more and more clear about the truth of your financial reality: the vibration you offer to the Universe is the key to your financial abundance and prosperity. Nothing else affects your experience other than those things that you bring into your experience through your vibration.

Most people, upon reading this for the first or the hundredth time, will usually react a bit by saying to themselves, “if that is true, then why am I experiencing this experience that I do not like?” You may feel a bit of indignation or overwhelm as we write these words.

It is not our intention to focus upon what you do not like. We write these words as an offering of freedom.

Yes, you may have created an experience in the past or in the now that is not pleasing to you. And you may feel that others are to blame. All of that is a part of the experience you are creating. If you feel that others are to blame, you will continue to receive evidence of this belief, through the mechanics of the Law of Attraction. As your vibration is offered, so do you receive. This is always happening.

So, we are inviting you to step outside of your usual train of thought for a moment. If you could see yourself as we see you, all of what you are creating would instantly shift.

You are a vibrant and dynamic being. You are a master manifestor. You are always reaching for more and more of what is in alignment with the very essence and truth of your being: love, peace, joy, freedom, abundance… This has always been true and it will always be true.

When you are having experiences that do not please you, then you know something is off. The Universe is wonderfully consistent. And your relationship with your Higher Self is always working.

Right now, your Higher Self is guiding you, very gently, away from what does not please you (that is why it does not feel good to you) and towards what does please you and what is in alignment with the truth of who you are right now.

We invite you to embrace this moment, wherever you may be and whatever experience you may be having. Embrace this moment as an opportunity to see the truth of who you are. Ask your Higher Self to speak to you and listen for the sweetness and compassion that immediately follows your request. For you are imminently perfect in this moment. Everything is conspiring to help you find your way back to the truth of who you are, even those people and experiences that you do not like. Particularly them.

So, what are the evolving economics of the future? They might be the simple awareness that this vast Universe is yours to enjoy and explore and share and live and love in. They might be the wonderful vision of ample abundance and prosperity bursting into your experience moment after moment.

But most of all, the evolving economics of the future are that you are the one creating your experience. No amount of statistics or theory can predict who you will become as you remember who you are. And we invite you to do so. For as you remember who you are, as you become your Higher Self, as you step into your personal power and allow it to flow through you, you are inviting thousands and millions of others to do the same. Whether they do or not, you cannot control or predict. But you have made the invitation, just as we are doing today, and it will always be silently and powerfully calling forth the very best that exists in each.

We are always quite honored and pleased to connect with you. And, until at such time that we are able to do so again, we bid you a fond farewell.

In an amazing conversation with the Communion of Light this morning, they gave us a list of nine things that happen when you feel better.

They reminded us that our feelings — our vibration — determines everything. All that we are experiencing is a result of what we feel and think.

When Dennis pressed them for more practical information they asked him to write down this list:

1. Creativity expands, ideas flow to me, actionable ideas become apparent.
2. My body relaxes. Chemical reactions occur in my body in response to my vibration expanding.
3. Who I am in the world changes. How others see me changes. I become more attractive. Those who can see, see more light shining through me. My aura expands.
4. It is easier to remember who I am. I am a spiritual being, a vibrational being, having a physical experience. When I feel better, it is easier to remember this.
5. My speech flows better. Ideas come forth with greater clarity.
6. I see the interconnectedness of all things with greater understanding.
7. I realize that there is nothing that I cannot be, do or have.
8. I realize that my decision to feel better is impacting my experience in the physical plane and I realize that the abundance in my life, whatever shape it may take, flows from that decision.
9. When I feel better, when I feel good, I realize why I forgot how important it is to feel good.

I could write volumes about this, but I think it speaks for itself.

Here we are.

It has been seven years since everything in the US stopped for several days.

It has been seven years since people across the globe said, “We are all Americans today.”

Here are some things that I am noticing about my country after seven years…

– I am noticing that elements of our government use torture. They always did. Now, the word is out.

– I am noticing that some elected officials only pay lip service to the Constitution. They always did. Now, the word is out.

– I am noticing that at least one political party will use any chance it can get to appropriate national symbols for political gain. They always did. Now, the word is out.

The word is out about the shadow country. The one that was kept in the dark because, as the amazing Jack Nicholson once said, “You can’t handle the truth.”

Now that we see the shadow, what do we do next?

Do we fight? Many of us have been fighting. Did it bring relief?

Do we drop out? Many of us have dropped out. Did it bring relief?

As the old saying goes, “What you resist, persists.” Fighting and ignoring are just a way to resist what is. There is a shadow country, whether we fight it or ignore it. There always has been. Now, the word is out.

Or is there another way? Many of us have found comfort and vision and renewed commitment to life in the vibrant unseen world that surrounds everything.

Is it possible that, by seeing the shadow country — the hidden United States (in other words, “us”) — we have an opportunity to choose once again? To choose more love, more peace, more harmony?

We can make this powerful choice in the place where we have the most influence — ourselves. Not islands alone in the stream, but interdependent beings living with and among one another.

It is no stretch to say to this group that how we live our lives has a greater influence on people than any word we may speak or write. For if we speak of one thing, but live another, then our words mean nothing in the end.

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Starhawk once wrote that it was a mistake not to give the dead a voice in politics. Being dead, they don’t quite have the same perspective on things that we, the living, have in our short view of the present and the future.

If you are having a memorial today for those who died on September 11th, whether it is public or private, you might want to ask the dead their opinion. They will probably tell you that their lives were never in vain and that they want no revenge for anything. For, from their non-physical vantage point, they see the perfection that exists already in each of our lives. And, patiently, they wait for us to realize it on our own.

When we do, the shadow disappears, for we are now living in the light.

With much love and affection for you all,
Frank Butterfield

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Louise Hay and team have created a new movie based on the book “You Can Heal Your Life.”

If you’ve never read this book, I strongly suggest you put it on your list. For many people, including me, “You Can Heal Your Life” was the first introduction we had to many of the principles discussed in these pages.

Here is the trailer: http://www.youcanhealyourlifemovie.com/

I’m here to see my sister (Amanda), her husband (Jeff), and their 3 kids (Cooper, Nathan, and Shelby). Jeff’s 20 year high school reunion is being celebrated in his hometown of Whiteface, about 45 miles due west of Lubbock and just a few miles from the New Mexico state line.

At the moment, I’m sitting at J&B Coffee Company. It’s a nice little coffeehouse north of the Texas Tech campus. And the only place that was open at 7 AM this morning when I wanted some joe and a good wi-fi connection. When I first got here, 4 of Lubbock’s finest were having coffee, but no doughnuts. It’s now almost 9 and it’s been hopping all morning.

I spent last night with friends Lauren and Stephen, who have also graciously put me up for the weekend. We had a lovely dinner. And, for Lubbock cognoscenti who may be reading this, I believe we saw the notorious Virgil.

The only issue I’m having with being up here on the high plains is a bit of a mild allergic reaction to something (cotton? cattle? dust?). So, now I’m going to find a secluded spot for a bit of EFT before I move on to my stepmother’s house to meet up with the family.

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