By Lionel Fifield (The Brisbane Relaxation Centre.)

Many years ago I was participating in a workshop and the presenter asked us to consider the situation of being told we had only 3 or 6 months to live. She asked to write down what we’d want to do and complete in the weeks left to us.

In this group was a woman in her late 50s who began writing with great focus and much enthusiasm and then told us how she would use those weeks.

I could see her excitement and feel her energy for making some very meaningful visits and trips, connecting with people she longed to see and doing things which in her heart were of real value. I thought to myself, “How great”.

As she finished reading that list and inspiring us with her enthusiasm and goals she suddenly slumped – her face changed – her body lost energy, and I’ll never forget her next words, “Unfortunately I’m not dying so I can’t do any of them”.

How would you have felt if you’d heard her say that? Would you have been even more determined to write your own list and then would you review it from time to time to see how you’re going?

A counsellor friend told me of a woman who was always highly stressed and anxious – she worked like a slave in order to take care of her husband and two alcoholic sons, none of whom worked. She was so worried about who would care for them if something happened to her. Suddenly one day she did die. The most interesting outcome was that her husband and two sons she felt so responsible for found jobs within six months – the two sons gave up alcohol and all three learned to look after themselves.

I have met many people who, as a result of a crisis, a diagnosis or sense of stagnation have made significant moves, inwardly and outwardly, and you can see it in their eyes and how they walk. They are more alive as they explore gifts, dreams, qualities and talents suppressed since childhood. Some have become involved in jobs or hobbies totally different to how they had spent their lives previously. Others have, step by step, faced fears of communication and vulnerability so they could make connection with themselves and others as never before.

I heard a story that touched me deeply; it was of a woman who, in her 40s, had been diagnosed with cancer and expected to live for only a very short time. She made the most remarkable and unexpected decision. She left her home and her partner and started a brand new life, and yes, years later she was still living.

So who puts the limitations on us? Who gives up our dreams? Who says what we can or we can’t do?  Friends and relatives may often tell us what they think we should or shouldn’t do with our lives. BUT who is responsible for our lives and whose life is it?

Nelson Mandela confronted innumerable personal hardships as well as family, political and national problems during his 27 years in prison and then afterwards as President of South Africa. Every day he made an inspiring self-empowering statement. I am master of my fate, I am captain of my ship.

What a reminder for us all.

—Lionel Fifield (The Brisbane Relaxation Centre.)

Much has been written about the amazing times we are living in. There was meant to be a ‘melt-down’ – some catastrophe – at the beginning of this century which we obviously didn’t have. Many people including the Mayans (who as gifted mathematicians developed the Mayan Calendar) made predictions about the possible ‘end-time’ of 2012 as many preferred to call it. Neither of these forecasts came about fortunately and it wasn’t the end of the planet.

With the coming of the Harmonic Convergence in 1987 the energy changed on Earth – from one focused on wars and other unbeneficial things to one where our consciousness has risen and is continuing to do so plus our awareness is changing and opening up to different ways of looking at things. Many of us are realising that changes are happening and a lot more is occurring than can be easily seen with our eyes! We can feel it ‘deep down’.

Actually it’s simply the beginning of a new way of ‘being’ on Earth and we will be part of that (if we choose to be). As we create our own realities, we can create the future any way we want it to be. So if we focus on ‘doom and gloom’ – guess what we’ll experience in our own ‘personal world’. When we focus on the opposite – connection, love and compassion (as the Dalai Lama talks about) we’ll live in that world – I know which one I’d prefer to be living in.

For example going back 35 years ago, who of us would have said that the Berlin Wall would fall, or for that matter seen the changes coming in the Soviet Union that occurred not that long ago? And in more recent times – in the last 3 + years we have seen 911 occur, followed by a number signs of what we could call ‘peaceful revolutions’. Ones such as the Occupy Wall Street protests in late 2011; protests against Monsanto in 2012; anti-austerity ones all over Europe and similar ones in Brazil in 2013; the protest in Cairo, Egypt also in 2013 followed by a climate change march and lately a huge Walmart strike. These are just some of the obvious signs of a ‘quiet revolution’ happening.

Even though parts of the media are still trying to hide the truth  – there have been glimpses of what’s ‘real’ and there has been enough evidence getting through to break this ‘illusion’ that all is well. Benjamin Fulford is one well known journalist who is assisting in dismantling the illusion. He retired from his job at Forbes Magazine in 2005 because he was dismayed at the media censorship and has been writing for the past few years letting the public know of what is actually happening on a geopolitical level. Much is occurring that we as the general public are unaware of through what we hear or read in the ‘news’. It is with the help of such people as Fulford that we are starting to wake up that what we read or hear is not always ‘how it is’.

We are starting to question and to take a good look at whether what we are experiencing in our present realities is what we really want in our lives. Gregg Braden has said:

“Our beliefs have the power to change the flow of events in the universe – literally to interrupt and redirect time, matter, and space, and then events that occur within them”.

We have so much taking place on many levels – such as the extra energies (coronal mass ejections) from the sun during the past few years. These are affecting our bodies – our cells and DNA and many on Earth are experiencing emotional and physical as well as mental repercussions from these new energies. For more information regarding this refer to the ‘Spiritual Awakening Symptoms!’ extract in Articles/News and check out the ‘Walking in Two Worlds!’ workshop to be held late June in Workshops.

Change is upon us and it is up to us to decide now, how we wish to experience 2015 and beyond. It has been said that ‘we need to become the change we wish to experience’ i.e. if we wish the world to be in peace, we need to ‘be in peace’ ourselves – so no more feeling anger or frustration.

N.B.
I will continue to hold Events on the Sunshine Coast (and elsewhere as well) in the near future which will cover ways to make our journey here on planet Earth – right now – easier and more graceful! The next workshop is ‘Walking in Two Worlds!’ at Cooroy Library on 27th June – for details see Workshops.

 Extract from:

‘SPIRITUAL AWAKENING:

Spiritual Awakening, from my view-point and from people I see and with whom I’ve worked, is many things. The fore-most one is:

Being aware that firstly:

We’re more that ‘just’ our body.
That there is a part of us which is much, much more.
This part of us can be described as our ‘soul’ or some people might call it ‘spirit’.
Lastly this ‘soul’ is what connects us to God.

Another sign of us ‘awakening’ is that we begin to look around us and realise that the ‘world’ isn’t the way we’d really like it to be. We then could follow this by starting to focus on how we could ‘fix’ this state of affairs.

An important part of the process of ‘awakening’ is that we are able to become Self Aware. We’re more conscious of what we think, how we feel at any given moment and for what reason we might act in certain circumstances.

Since the Harmonic Convergence in 1987, the energies on Earth have been ‘ramping’ up to the point where many of us are really feeling them. And with these energies, we’re being given the opportunity to connect here on Earth, with our mind, body and spirit (soul!) To do this easily we need to be clear of all that’s limiting us and keeping us in dense energies.

It seems through experience, much easier to ‘go with this process’ rather than to fight it. If/when we do the latter, all it seems to do is put off the inevitable. I’ve noticed people (including myself) manifesting illness as blockages rather than instead – allowing the energy to flow easily through us, which then helps us to realise what it is that we could choose to clear on an emotional level. And quite often our body is giving us the message as to what we could clear.

So what are some of the signs that we could be having a ‘Spiritual Awakening?’

The signs mentioned in the first group are general ones, followed by those that are Physical, Emotional, Mental and Psychic. Not everyone is going to have all these at once. What I have observed is that depending on each person (being different and unique) a few symptoms will occur and then disappear, followed by some new ones, which also sub-side depending on what they are, how we address them and also where the person is on ‘their soul journey’. Some people I know have been circumnavigating these ‘symptoms’ (including myself) for many years. I feel like ‘blocking’ the following sentence – remember we can get through this stage of our evolvement easily! Okay I will….block it….

REMEMBER – WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS STAGE OF OUR EVOLVEMENT
EASILY – AND GRACEFULLY!

N.B. With all of the following where it is appropriate, always get medical advice.’

The balance of this article will be presented at the ‘Walking in Two Worlds!’ Workshop on the 27th June, 2015 at Cooroy Library.

CREATING BEYOND THE ‘ILLUSION!’ WITH ♥ !

I was unsure for sometime about what to call this article – whether to title it ‘Deliberate Creation’ or ‘Creating in “No” Time’ or simply use ‘Conscious Creation” With the support of someone I know, I chose the ‘Illusion’ choice. So now on with explaining.

One explanation of what realities (and illusions) are:
‘The only realities we know are what the brain manifests. Our brain receives billions of signals every minute that we organise and process ourselves and organise them into holograms which we project outside of ourselves and call reality’.

That is just one description that is available if one searches the Internet. Personally, I love watching Star Trek and seeing how a hologram is created. The space used starts out looking like an empty box (with grids similar to what’s pictured on this page) and then what the reality is going to be, how it looks and how it might feel to experience that reality, is programmed into the computer. And in an instant – with voice activation – a reality is created. Wow!

Apart from this, we could investigate Bashar’s words (Google him if necessary) on what reality/illusion are or we could explore David Icke’s ideas on the Matrix or the old explanation I read some years ago where using a movie camera and screen to explain how we create. Some of us may remember Richard Bach’s book ‘Illusions’ first published in wait for it…1977! In this he reminds us that….’If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it’. Reading this now really brings it home – how ‘hard’ we can make things by simply focusing on the situations that aren’t working for us.

For me I like to KISS – keep it simple……..! Beliefs – the way people think – family, society – even religions, all have helped programme us into a certain way of creating our lives. For example, if it’s true that ‘what we focus on and also what we resist – we create,’  we will create such things as wars, famine, grief, misery etc., etc., on a global level – plus things we don’t like in our personal lives such as loss in relationship, dis-ease, unhappiness.

The new energy since 2002 – actually it commenced in 1987 with the Harmonic Convergence, is helping wake us up so we are more open to realise there’s another way to perceive things, think differently and create our lives in a whole new way.

People such as Louise Hays, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Dan Millman, Gregg Braden and so many more, have helped to open the doors for us so we can commence thinking outside the box, thus de-programming the old, enabling us to start creating a whole new way of experiencing the realities in our lives and in our world in general.

The focus is on LOVE and when we focus in this manner– Unity Consciousness is created. And where LOVE is the base – there is peace, prosperity, equality and freedom for all.

So what really is REAL? I have sensed and felt that as our vibration rises and we leave behind lower frequencies and duality, we begin to feel that what we just left isn’t really real, but something that could be described simply as an illusion. So we have to ‘get through’ it to realise that this is the case – whilst we’re in it, we’re not aware. Our limiting beliefs and fears keep us stuck there – in 3D and duality.

Sometimes we have to go through a ‘dark night of the soul’ episode (as I created for myself  a few months ago – being physically not being able to walk much for nearly 12 months – which actually forced me to take stock personally and spiritually in order to be catapulted into my next dimensional level – a state of ‘Being ness’). More on this in ‘The Journey out of Victim Consciousness’ in Articles.

This ‘being ness’ is one of balance, peace, harmony and love – in the NOW, where we feel connected to ‘All That Is’ and which allows us to do such fun things as play with ‘time’ – from observing it as a runaway train to actually slowing it right down and feeling and seeing it stop.

Other gifts that are part of this expansion are a feeling of being connected to spiritual knowledge constantly – getting closer and closer to being telepathic. As part of this ability, we start to sense for instance other’s energy and where ‘they’re coming from?’ We’re also receiving the skills/tools to be able to work more intimately with the cells of our body and become aware of how they communicate back to us. It’s a time of great excitement as our memory returns to us….. the veil lifts! We remember that we are multi-dimensional and with this memory, we commence to feel this in every part  of us and know this.

These things are happening! We are able to experience them NOW!

“Time is not at all what it seems; it does not flow
in only one direction, and the future exists
simultaneously with the past.
~ Albert Einstein

IF I CAN DO ‘IT’ – YOU CAN DO ‘IT!’
(The ‘it’ for me is ‘being happy and much, much more!)
BRIEF AUTOBIO! SORT OF!  😕 UNCOVERING THE REAL ‘ME!’

EVENTS:

(These facts are events that have happened in my life and are being described by me, from a perspective of absolutely no blame or judgment.  I am grateful to now see how they all fit into what I had chosen before I decided to be part of this planet’s existence. And for the learning therein).
(N.B. If you are not sure about Reincarnation  in Articles/News).

EARLY LIFE:

Born 1939. (Yes, I’m 75 and proud of it – plenty of experience. I’ve heard it said that ‘with experience – comes wisdom’.

I was an only child and my parents were in their early/late 40’s when I was born. They waited from 1925 for me to come along.

In 1942 my Dad (an Army General) left for the Middle East.

Dad returned to Australia in 1942.

Dad left again to Milne Bay, New Guinea August 1942, and took a small photo album of the family with him, which I still have in my possession. 🙂

Having been in charge of the Allies in the first defeat of the Japanese on land he returned home, finally in November 1943 with malaria.

I was brought up with the help of mother-craft nurses due to my mother’s ill health, and my father being away so much.

My father was head of Vic. Army till 1949 and when he was 57 he was retired. He was then home most of the time except when he played golf with friends and helped look after the house. And did the shopping.

I was blessed that I went to Loreto Convent in Melbourne.

Loreto gave me an amazing foundation for dealing with what I have experienced during my life – which I now years later, realise – I co-created! 🙂

As a young girl of about thirteen I truly wanted to be a nun. Then later on, I found out there were boys!

Being brought up a Catholic was a great education for me, looking back now. It presented me with a base for feeling guilty early in life – a lot!  Which I have learnt to deal with in later life. No blame!

I was also blessed, once I was able to fly on a plane by myself, to be able spend half my holidays with my cousins at the family sheep station at Yass, N.S.W.  I was brought up to have no fear of snakes, (we left them alone) to be able to go bare feet over stones, ride horses and have fun. As young children, as long as we were in the dining room in time for meals having heard the warning bell (which we would hear from afar) we got away with – not quite ‘blue murder’.

There was one major event that occurred which in some way has possibly had a major effect on my back and my life. When I was around thirteen, I was riding a 17 ½ hands ex-race horse that was spooked by a car nearby and bolted – then propped – and I kept going!  I remember I landed on my coccyx. At the time I was just a bit sore – I guess – bruised and just got on with life. Later ‘medically’ it was said that this may have played a part in the back ‘challenges’ that I developed once I had children. I now see that there are other explanations please refer to http://www.skillsforlivingforlife.com.au/meta-physics-me/

N.B. The picture included here is an enamel painting on china of Jeir Station where I spent half my ‘growing up years.’ i.e. school in Melbourne – holidays at Jeir.

Looking back at school years, I now feel like I was ‘playing a part’ – something I guess I have been doing off and on, right through my life. Because of never feeling really ‘good enough’ I had always been using ‘achievement’ or ‘pleasing’ as ways to feel better and to fit in. Also I’ve felt because of circumstances later on – I have never allowed myself to be ‘truly me’, and step out to be ‘who’ I am – which I’m doing now.  🙂

‘Loreto’ was an avant guarde school  allowing us to be social with boys as long as we acted responsibly. Dancing classes at around 15 with St. Kevin’s boys at the local Parish Hall! And this was in the 1950’s!

After leaving school – there was Uni and yes boys! I chose to study Physiotherapy and faced 2nd year Anatomy. And first week cutting up cadavers. 🙁  Due to me preferring a social life and also managing to bring one of my classic ‘coping mechanisms’ into play, I created for myself really bad tonsillitis which gave me an excuse to fail this subject. Which I did! More on this in:
http://www.skillsforlivingforlife.com.au/meta-physics-me/

ADULT LIFE:

Having decided to opt out of Uni. (now I know I was putting too much pressure on myself to succeed) I learnt short-hand and typing and amazed myself in hindsight by picking up a ‘plum’ job at Georges’ Department Store (this used to be one of the most up-market stores in the world.)  I spent 3 years as Secretary to the two Head Buyers and had a ball, buying all the latest clothes from overseas.  My mother wasn’t impressed as she covered some of my bills. Thank you Mum!

I had one main relationship from around 18 for about 3 years and this person remained important to me right through my life till he left the planet around 4 years ago.

I married at 23.  My parents bought a house for us in Middle Brighton. Yes, I was very blessed! I remember my Dad querying me and asking ‘was I sure of my choice regarding marriage to this person?’

Mum died in Dec., 1963 whilst I was pregnant with my first son and he was born in Feb., 1964 – a leap day baby.  A boisterous, ‘slightly’ demanding beautiful blond angel.  Probably like I had been deep down though I didn’t show it like he did.

Second son born Nov., 1965.  An amazingly ‘well behaved,’ quiet and happy child.

Unfortunately due to challenges with alcohol of which my Dad was obviously well aware and which were not able to be addressed, this marriage ended about two years later.

I sold the house and moved back with the boys to live with him, at the family home where I grew up.

Dad died a couple of years later.  I remember how wonderful the Army were, allowing me to have an Army driver and car to take me out to the Repatriation Hospital to see him every day. There was an Army funeral. I went away with the boys to Sydney as I wanted some ‘time out’ to cope with the loss.

After my father died, I had challenges regarding my husband– I guess the term now would be called ‘stalking’. Eventually the Victorian Supreme Court issued an order to keep him away from the house – to allow us to live without him following myself and the boys. Once I even managed to get myself locked out of the house and had to get the solicitor to talk him back out.

During this time I had an operation –  a double fusion on my lower back – being told that maybe it was due to my fall off the horse when I was 13. I spent 3 months in hospital – flat on my back (ended up with every infection one could get) and my boys were looked after by a friend’s Mum at home. Rehab took around 18 months for 2 reasons – firstly to learn to walk again properly and also because of the pain medication. It took that long before I could think clearly once more. I was blessed that I had help to care for the boys.

On a trip to Sydney, I met someone through a friend.

Because of the situation in Melbourne and also having a ‘ray of sunshine’ in Sydney, I moved there and bought a house in Mosman, near where he lived.

I got married and the family ended up – eventually, with the addition of a little girl – just like the Brady Bunch! It was a lovely time, though I was still handling every day life with a ‘back challenge’. When Lisa was born I had a caesarean to protect it.

In the end (literally) this marriage went kaput! I take responsibility for the fact that in the ‘end’ I was in pain because of the back scenario and anyone in the same place, knows how debilitating back pain can be. I can now see also how this over the years, tied very much in with my ‘need’ for support that I’ve had all my life. I now teach clients how to fulfil their own emotional needs – the information I have now – if used by myself could have changed my whole life. Interesting to realise that now.

After the marriage break-up, a doctor picked up that Lisa, at that stage 3 yrs., old had a very nasty form of Leukaemia. Within 2 hours she was in Royal North Shore’s Children’s ward and sadly she died 3 weeks later.

So I remained in Sydney, got a job and brought the two boys up myself.

RECENTLY:

After the two boys left home in the 1980’s, I went back to Melbourne to see if I could re-establish the relationship I had had with my friend from school…….. We were together for some 5 years. I eventually became frustrated because I felt he wasn’t spending the time with me I ‘needed’. There are those ‘needs!’ again. So I ended ‘it!’

In hindsight – we discussed what happened later and he agreed that had I been able to communicate with him in a way that he could have understood, that the relationship would have continued and been happy. At that time, I was naïve regarding relationships and my learning has come from them ‘not working’. Weird isn’t it?  The information I learnt is covered in the Relationship article at http://www.skillsforlivingforlife.com.au/article/

The turning point after this relationship break-up was when I bought a book called ‘The Peter Pan Syndrome’. I purchased this (I see now) to find out ‘what the matter was’ with the other person – why he was the way he was? And why I ‘couldn’t cope!’ Having read it, I started realising that it wasn’t about him – but about me. It was up to me to start looking at myself and to take responsibility for my part in why the relationship hadn’t worked.

The break-up and the fact that during that period I was diagnosed with Leukemia, presented me with the awareness (eventually) that what I had experienced was the best thing that could have happened to me. (More info re this at  http://www.skillsforlivingforlife.com.au/editorials/) Now I see this clearly – back then I was distraught! With both occurring.

During the latter l980’s whilst I was still in Melbourne and as a way of dealing with this illness, I attended pretty much every seminar that was available back in those days – including 6 months of re-birthing and worked with some amazing teachers. I had ‘found’ Louise Hays and worked with Dr. John Harrison in Sydney and actually brought him to Melbourne for talks at Melbourne University.

Eventually in early 1990’s, I decided to move to Noosa having been there in the 1960’s and knew deep down that I would end up living there.

I did a number of Counselling Courses with Lou Hogg (the most amazing person and ex-Lifeline teacher).

Around 1992 I set up my own business – ‘Skills For Living For Life’ and one of my first clients suggested I call myself a ‘Facilitator of Change’ which I have done ever since.

I have worked in the transformational field for over 30 years in Melbourne, Sydney and here in Noosa giving people the tools to help them to change their own lives – themselves.

NOW:

The title of this article is ‘If I Can Do “It” – You Can Do “It!”’  and the wording was suggested years ago by a daughter-in-law as the title of a Autobiographical story about my life. She felt it has been eventful! It was at a time when ‘I was turning around much that was ‘unbeneficial’ to being the opposite.

Turning situations around in 2002 involved getting through an endoscopy at a local hospital ‘that didn’t work out’. My oesophagus was perforated! After 3 days lying in hospital and being told I had 6 hours to live, I was finally ambulanced from Noosa to Brisbane Hospital and remained there for nearly 3 weeks, after an operation to clear an infection. I was unable to drink or eat (or sleep due to a collapsed lung on top of everything else) and was being fed through a bag in my stomach area. I realised once I was recovering, that I had to go through this (challenging as it was) for me to write the last part of the ‘Know the “Who” in You!’ programme i.e. the ‘Letting Go’ plus the ‘Forgiveness’ exercises in ‘the Process’. I had already thought I had finished writing ‘the Programme’ some 5 years previous to this occurring. There’s a saying in Self Transformational work – ‘you are unable to take someone where you haven’t been yourself’.

Some 18 months later I went through surgery for colon cancer and I ‘bounced’ out of this relatively easily due to the fact I was aware of the cause on a Metaphysical base. I was back playing tennis in 5 weeks! 🙂 More on this at http://www.skillsforlivingforlife.com.au/meta-physics-me/

In the years following this I was able to turn the Leukemia around with no medical help after some 20 years of focusing on ‘doing’ this!

Since then, I sold my home and am renting and focusing on supporting people who are going through Spiritual Awakening Symptoms  in Articles/News and giving them skills to make this journey as easy as it possibly can be.

As a further test – in the middle of 2014 something pretty massive came out of the blue. A tendon in my ankle ‘went’ for no apparent reason and after a couple of weeks in a moon-boot  after a diagnosis, my right knee decided to ‘play up’. The end result was that for 3 months I was unable to drive and for many more months was only able to get around the house in order to take care of every day issues like food! My friends did my shopping for me and my son drove me to the Physio. sometimes twice a week. During this period – which I would actually call a ‘black night of the soul’ experience, I went through everything from feeling like a victim – due to blaming, to feeling totally frustrated, depressed and it was a lesson for me I now realise in being forced to ‘do nothing’ and simply ‘be’. Sometimes when we’re not ‘getting it’ – the next step is that the Universe etc., will help us create something so that the space is created in which we are able to stop and learn that which is meant to be taught! I wrote an article called ‘The Journey Out of Victim Consciousness … to Simply Be-ing!’

Right ‘now’ my transformation is occurring on many levels as is happening with many, many of those here on Earth. This also includes the birth of this web-site and also eventually – the culmination of the addition of 30 years of my work exercises with clients being transferred into e-Books to make the information more available to those involved in self transformation. This keystoselfmastery.com site will carry further up-to-date information towards being able to ‘create easily’ from ♥ ! ‘Easily’ being the main goal!

Over some 15 years, the information in ‘Know the “Who” in You!’ was passed on to me by two extremely high sources and I am truly grateful for the nudges they are giving me right now, to get what they gave me – out there!

To end,
‘what has happened in the past may have influenced my life,
but I am responsible for who I am NOW!  Blaming won’t help me ‘be happy!’
Only I can make me happy!

‘©  2015 Lis Blake
Keys to Self Mastery!