INTERPRETING DREAM FROM JANUARY 2010 - SYNCHRONICITY

"Why am I interpreting this now? Well yesterday I interpreted a dream with dolphins in it, my new life path was revealed - and this morning I looked back at the beginning of 2010 and came across this dolphin dream that was never interpreted so decided to have a go at it, knowing what I know now of my January this was a treat! Confirmation and entertaining view on one's journey in life!"

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JANUARY 21st 2010 - BLOG ENTRY 
DREAM OF 31.3.2010 + DREAM INTERPRETATION ON 11.12.2010

I had a dream last night about three signs, Aries, Taurus and Aquarian. It took place outside the window, on the windowstill, of an old skyscraper. There was a woman who didn't need anything physical to stay standing in front of me, a man next to me on the window still and a second woman who walked past me to a ledge. I was only affaird of heigh occasionally when i looked straight down.
I can't recall what the two other sign did, but Aquarius turned me to a sea creature, probably mermaid like or dolphins, I didn't see me, but I felt ½ and ½.
I then woke up in my dream on the ledge and they hasseled me that I didn't even see anything. So I tried to remember really hard and got a date 31.3.

I woke up, then, officially woke-up.

I checked the calender for 31.3 - cause in my dream it was a on the place of the third weeks friday - this year it would be last week's monday.

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Edited on December 11th 2010 with Dream Interpretation:

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Balcony = To see a balcony in a dream or dream that you are on a balcony is symbolic of a need to be acknowledged. It might also be a sign that your social status is improving. ( sure needed to be akcnowledged in this part of my life, there was a huge changed coming - and my soul was literally showting "see me!" )

Astrology = To dream about astrology implies that you are apprehensive about upcoming events. You need to pay very close attention to what is being communicated to you and determine what influence it will have on your life. ( spot on! January, February and March were all about learning to communicate through trial and error while my connection my Higher Self deepened )

Woman = A woman or women generally represent intuition, creativity, nurturing, and love. ( the women didn't do much in the dream - but they symbolod this dream coming from my intuition )

Man = Depending on the details of the dream, the masculine figure could be interpreted as the Creator or Destroyer. ( creator for sure! He created me into this half human half dolphin  )

Dolphins = Dolphins represent friendliness, communal living, rescue, communication, and affection. They are water dwelling mammals and in our dreams they represent our willingness and ability to navigate through emotions. They represent positive messages from our unconscious minds. Dolphins could also represent a positive connection between our consciousness and to those parts of the psyche that is a mystery and largely unconscious. ( this was prime emotion navigation time - positive message from the unconscious mind about 31.3.2010 to me )

31.3.2010 What happened?

Finding strength in power of being a Finn, researching true history of the Finns and contemplation on the non-meak heritage gave me a oomph of right kind of pride: http://niinac.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html

Beginning of April, I contemplated on sacred text, and the meaning behind the biggest sacred book of our time the bible, and "The Hidden History of Human Race"... both of these begun me to understand finally what is Jesus, what are we as humans. And the biggest thing! I picked up Eckhart Tolle's lecture on The Now - and after that there was no turning back, this was it. My April, my shift to "The Now Consciouness - The Integral Consciouness" from Post Modern view. http://niinac.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html

The Full Moon is Tuesday March 30th 2010. This is a "Blue" Moon, in modern terms the second full Moon in a month. We also had a "Blue" Moon in January. "Blue" Moons roughly occur once every 2.5 years, but to have two in the same year is rarer, roughly once every 20-25 years.
Full Moons of this time period =
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2010 AQUARIUS FULL MOON
TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2010 ARIES FULL MOON
TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010 TAURUS FULL MOON

"I had a dream last night about three signs, Aries, Taurus and Aquarian."

"At the time of a Full Moon, you should expect a culmination of events to occur within 4 to 5 days of its occurrence. Full moons close chapters and often bring a sense of finality to your life. You can't have a fresh start without closure in other areas; otherwise we get bombarded with issues that never end and our lives collect so much clutter that it becomes chaotic."


What are the odds of that kind of synchronizity? April 8th I discover Eckhart Tolle's view on The Now - which profoundly changes me, on April 23rd I discover A Course in Miracles that confirms everything I ever wondered about life, spirituality and the Now included released all my old shadows and just lfet peace in me. ( 23rd is with 5 days of the Full Moon of Taurus - yes incase you were wondering I am a Taurus - those ten days around April 27th  were the change, the profound, life changing days for me )

Why am I interpreting this now? Well yesterday I interpreted a dream with dolphins in it, my new life path was revealed - and this morning I looked back at the beginning of 2010 and came across this dolphin dream that was never interpreted so decided to have a go at it, knowing what I know now of my January this was a treat! Confirmation and entertaining view on one's journey in life!

Love, Light and Joy!

Niina

ARE YOU YOUR SELF, AND IF YES, THEN WHICH ONE?

If I remove from you your past and your future, what is left of you?
Pretend for a moment, that I can and have taken away your past and you future...
You have no past, you have no future...
what is left of you as you sit there?

For me, I am aware of everything, my breath, my body, am I aware of those - but not them.

DO YOU WANT PEACE OR DRAMA?

From Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth, page 77 "Do you want Peace or Drama?"

"You want peace. There is no one who does not want peace. Yet there is something else in you that wants the drama, wants the conflict. You may not be able to feel it at this moment. You might have to wait for a situation or even just a thought that triggers a reaction in you: someone accusing you of this or that, not acknowledging you, encrouching on your terratory, questioning the way you do things, an argument about money. . . . Can you then feel the enormous surge of force moving through you? Can you hear your own voice becoming harsh or shrill, or louder and few octaves lower? Can you be aware of your mind racing to defend its position, justify, attack, blame? In other words, can you awaken at that moment of unconsciousness? Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?"

Love, Light and Joy
Niina

"DOG WHISPERER" AND ECKHART TOLLE

The ones of you who know me well, know that I absolutely was hooked on the show Dog Whisperer. This show was hosted by Cesar Millan, and delt with puppy psychology and training the 'humans' as well. ( which is close to what I do as profession [people who work with kids will get the joke ;)] that is taking care of all the need of a growing child )

So - you can imagine my surprise to see these following three videos of  Cesar Millan and Eckhart Tolle in conversation!

"Dogs always desire balance, they stay in the present and aspire for the we, the pack."

"When your dog is upset there is no need for you to be upset. You teach it's important to be non-reactive to the dogs behavior - which ofcourse is a deep spiritual teaching as well."

"Dog energy: What can I do for you, to help others?"

Love, Light and Joy!

Niina

Dialog @ http://lightworkers.org/blog/119203/dog-whisperer-and-eckhart-tolle

"WORLD CONCENTRATE"

Jim Carrey Introduces Eckhart Tolle from EckhartTolle TV on Vimeo.

AWAKENING EVERYDAY

Eckhart Tolle
on

Spirituality in Everyday Life.

"When a negativity arises it's saying "wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present"

"I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am." ~ from Stillness Speaks

LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS & THE NOW

An idea dawned on me as I watched this video, that I hadn't though of before in quite the same way.
Before this April when this stage of happiness begun ( I wish I had a better name for it ) I was spiritual and in a state of awakeness - but I had problems, all life troubles and stress and anxiety from time to time. It seemed it went in cycles of three months of happiness, three months of sadness, and so on and so on...
Now what changed in April 2010? What was the catalyst for the change?

I came across Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat DVD.

After reading my blog entry I recommend you watch these two:

Part 1 of Findhorn Retreat HERE.

Part 2 of Findhorn Retreat HERE.

It was like gentle knock in the head - the slapped in the back of your head kind of "Duh!".
And I got it.

I got it.

It was the power of Now. This here, right now. Now.
I realized suddenly without reading any of his books that everything wrong in my so called life was because I kept wondering into the Past ( oh no what have I done, they will hate me, they will think badly of me, I feel so embarrassed, I can't believe they still kill people, I cannot believe they destroyed that, I'm mortified by that betrayal - you know all those feelings ) and into the Future ( oh shit I have meeting tomorrow, oh shit I have to pay this bill I haven't got money for in two day, oh shoot I can't find my red sweater for tomorrow, I have to meet someone downtown, I don't want to watch the news, I don't want to go to work, I don't want to go to dentist tomorrow, I have to see him/her later, someone could be mad at me now, I could be mad at someone if they happen to do this or that - that sort of things ) for my chance at unhappiness.

I was seriously looking for trouble, everyday.

I was spiritual, I meditated, I was "green", I was vegetarian, I was conscious, I was reading channelings, I was sort of an activist BUT despite all my good intentions I was stuck in the Past and Future for my unhappiness fix.

Photo by Pat Goltz

Change came, the Now came - and like turning on the lights, the darkness was suddenly gone. I knew there had been darkness, and I could still see it far away from me at the edges of my bright light, but it wasn't with me anymore. I was not sad, I was not depressed, I was not worried. Everything made me smile because I got it - what is wrong in right Now? Nothing. Right now with everything going on around me, there is nothing wrong with me or in me. I am smiling, happy, calm, spiritual - even at the most uncomfortable moment ( if I would allow them to be ) I kept smiling, because I had got it, I am strong within me, I am strong in my own self, no one else can make dents in my armour, because I have let go of my armour, there is nothing to dent. It is just me, the essence of me showing constantly always lit with a bright light.

What this next video made me aware of was that the source of my unhappiness was the Post-Modern Level of Consciousness - as great as it is in our process of awaking it is still a place with Pain and Fear.
Now I have been aware of Integral for few months sense the Free Beyond Awakening Teleseminar begun and they had Ken Wilber as quest speaker, explaining these Levels of Consciousness - but before this next video no one had called the integral level, The Level of Now.
This is where it hit me. My leap in April 2010 had been a leap to The Level of Now from Post-Modern Consciousness.
It made perfect sense and I now finally have a name and place for my Transition. ( Not that that should matter, and it doesn't but it helps me to write this blog so yay for that! )

Love, Light and Joy!

Niina

HAPPINESS VS. UNHAPPINESS

In the Now when you are unhappy with the situation you are in you can...

Remove yourself from the situation...

Change it...

Or totally accept it...

Unhappiness stems from the lack of staying in the Present. Most unhappiness is not of this moment - but past insident or emotion, or fear of  future insident or pending meeting/talk. You can easily try this, pick anything you've done wrong in the past and see if you still feel bad about it, or pick future date that is of importance and see if what comes up is the negative what ifs.

Most of the time there is nothing wrong in the Now, the present moment.

When you do become aware of something wrong in the right now, Eckhart Tolle gives good guidelines:
- Remove yourself from the situation
- Change the situation with your actions
- Accept what is, totally

Out of these three accepting what is might seem the hardest to do.

You can easily leave. You can easily do something to change it, a joke, a hug, a kind word.
But how do you accept something unhappy?
You don't.

What you do accept is that it did just happen.
You cannot make it "not happen", you acknowledge that this just happened and now you can guide your energy to change what will happen right now.
Accept that this is how life is now.
Accept that everything that happens is for a highest good and learning.
Accept your emotions, but don't let it rule over your consciouness.

Happiness is a choice you can make.

Love, Light and Joy!

Niina in the Now

Dialog @ http://lightworkers.org/blog/118722/happiness-vs-unhappiness

MUSIC - JEWEL, SPIRIT

I rarely do album reviews, and trust me this isn't really one.

I simply wanted to let anyone who is in their life spiritual to know few things recarding this album.

The album is Jewel's Spirit.

Even the title gives promise, that is also delivered.
If you have read some Course in Miracles and Ekchart Tolle's Power Now & New Earth, you will love this album.

Why?

Well-- I have gathered some bits of lyrics on each song and added youtube links as well.
So read on and decide if you find it as beautiful and spiritual as well.

   1. "Deep Water" (Kilcher) – 4:16
we've compromised our pride
and sacrificed our health
we have to demand more
not of each other
but more from ourselves

   2. "What's Simple Is True" (Kilcher) – 3:34
'cause the more i live
the more i know
what's simple is true
i love, i love you

   3. "Hands" (Kilcher, Patrick Leonard) – 3:54

If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all OK
and not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these
I won't be made useless
I won't be idle with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
For light does the darkness most fear

My hands are small, I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
and I am never broken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFLPwv6b3lI
 
4. "Kiss The Flame" - 3:16

there are nightmares on the sidewalks
there are jokes on tv
there are people selling thoughtlessness
with such casualty
but wherefore art thou, romeo
where have all the brave men gone?
show me one man who knows his own heart
to him i shall belong
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEIadjAFrfw

   5. "Down So Long" (Kilcher) – 4:13
i take a trip, i catch a train, i catch a plane
i got a ticket in my hand
and then a man takes my money
and like cattle we all stand

   6. "Innocence Maintained" (Kilcher) – 4:08
a small town in ohio
two boys are filled with violence
and darkness spreads its legs for hate and ignorance
we are given to a god to put our faith therein
but to be forgiven, we must first believe in sin
we've made houses for hatred
it's time we made a place
where people's souls may be seen and made safe
be careful with each other
these fragile flames
for innocence can't be lost
it just needs to be maintained

   7. "Jupiter" (Kilcher) – 4:18
oh, oh jupiter
oh, oh be still my little heart
oh, oh love is a flame neither timid nor tame
take these stars from my crown
let the years fall down
lay me out in firelight
let my skin feel the night
fasten me to your side
say it will be soon
you make me so crazy, baby
could swallow the moon

   8. "Fat Boy" (Kilcher) – 2:54

   9. "Enter from the East" (Kilcher) – 4:02
i went out a-wandering
beneath an unknown sky
the heavens all shook violently
he caught my eye
strange fruit fell
it struck me to the core
my heart became a single flame
it wanted nothing more

  10. "Barcelona" (Kilcher) – 3:53
but if you could hear the voice in my heart it would tell you
i'm afraid i am alone
won't somebody please hold me, release me
show me the meaning of mercy
let me loose
fly, let me fly, let me fly

  11. "Life Uncommon" (Kilcher) – 4:56
lend your voices only to sounds of freedom
no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from
fill your lives with love and bravery
and you shall lead a life uncommon
i've heard your anguish,
i've heard your hearts cry out
we are tired, we are weary, but we aren't worn out 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYjFJQ_AIRc



  12. "Do You" (Kilcher) – 4:21
we shake our fists and say,
"well good golly, we're mad
that god kills children with our very own hands."
we claim innocence and not to understand
or do you, do we?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOVzkz9cLwI

  13. "Absence of Fear" (Kilcher) – 7:25
I am wanting, and...
I am needing you
To be here
Inside the absence of fear
There is this hunger
This restlessness inside of me
And it knows that you're no stranger,
You're my gravity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkmNNyOYbSU

BEING / GOD TERM EXPLAINED WELL

Being, being the better word for God.... why?

"God has become [through misuse] a closed concept. The moment the word is uttered a mental image is created, no longer, perhaps, of and old man with a beard, BUT a still mental presentation of someone or something outside you, and yes, almost inevatably a male someone orsomething."

"The word Being explains nothing, but nor does God. Being however, has the advantage that it is an open concept. It does not reduce the infinite invisable to finite entity. It is impossible to form a mental image of it. Nobody can claim exclusive posession of being. It is your very essence, and it is immediately accessible to you as the feeling of your own presence, the realization I AM that is prior to I am this or I am that."

~ Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

If someone asks if 'you believe in God' - answering 'what kind of God are you asking me if I belive in?' maybe help to clarify things. ;)

ILLUSION OF OWNERSHIP

A quote from Eckhart Tolle's Book A New Earth, from Chapter EGO: THE CURRENT STATE OF HUMANITY

"To "own" something - what does it really mean? What does it mean to make something "mine"? If you stand on a street in New York, point to a huge skyscarper and say, "That building is mine. I own it," you are either very wealthy or you are delusional or a liar. In anycase you are telling a story in which the thought form "I" and the thought form "building" merge into one. That's how the mental  concept of ownership works. If everybody agrees with your story, there will be signed pieces of paper to certify their agreemenr with it. You are wealthy. If nobody agrees with the story, they will send you to psychiatrist. You are delusional, or a compulsive liar."

PEARLS FROM THE RETREAT

ECKHART TOLLE did a weekend retreat at FINDHORN in Scotland. A gorgeous sacred place! And it was captured on DVD.

I got the DVD from the library this week - and as I had to spend yesterday home because of getting ill I put it on the player.

I haven't heard Eckhart Tolle speak before and it surprised me especially in the beginning how slow he speaks - but after getting use to of his rhythm, I got to the listening.

I think the idea at the very top of my mind right now after sleeping on the 2h lecture is this:
There is always only NOW. You can never reach back to the past, and no matter how much you try, and plan, the future you will never have it. Cause you can only exist in the Now.
He asked very wisely "What is wrong right now?" If you think about it, you'll realise all problems we think about (and we think about our problems A LOT I tell you) are in the future - I got to go see the doctor tomorrow, I have to sign to declare bankrupcy with my lawyer next week, mom's gonna visit this evening I have to clean.What is wrong right now? - Well... Nothing I suppose, I'm here alive, sitting, feeling the energy of the moment pass in me.

Our head want us to think, our ego-self wants us to think, to be right, to challenge, to complain (boy does it love to complain! Be aware of complaining, it only makes you feel superior to the target for a moment before you feel worse than some one else does (he gives an example where you are talking to a professor who wows you with "knowledge" and fancy words you your ego feels 'damn I'm so stupid, he's much more smarter than me - but I am more beautiful' It's a vicious cycle)).
Our soul, our essence of being, the part of us that is connected to all life on earth wants us to Be Present. Be open to nature, love, the earth without the thinking that is ego's job.

I'll clear that a little - there is nothing wrong with thinking as long as we recognise that they are just scattering thoughts, just words, labels, stamps we but on things.

Tree is a tree.
Why?

Because it is off wood (another stamp), it has branches (another stamp) that have leaves (another stamp) that are green cause they have chlorophyll (fancy stamp ;) ). The thing about thoughts is we "think" we have to have them all the time, hence they move like rabbits down the field being chased by a hungry fox. Like such after thoughts of seeing tree - And you know I have seen these and everyone calls them trees, and this one is like aunt Maggie's old oak tree in the back yard, hmm, aunt Maggie was bit weird of a character, oh and her third husband Billy man I hate him always with the 'you'll never be good to do anything' speeches.
So now you have seen the tree and remember how much Uncle Billy brought you down.
That is the ego-self thinking.

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Then we have your essence, which sits by the tree, marvels it, its beauty without specification - doesn't want anything of the life in front of it. Being present in the company of something so connected to life and earth that is free of ego is simply Stillness. There is no judgement - there is no battle of the egos (who's smarter, prettier, cleaner, more right, less wrong, obvious, dim and such and such...). Just you, the singing of the birds, the wind tugging at your hair, the life flow between you and the living tree in front of you. That is stillness, that is where happiness is.

Be Present.

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VIDEO:

To decide for yourself and hear for yourself visit this Blog link to see the Part 1, the 2 hour lecture at Findhorn:

Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat - Stillness Amidst The World