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Sacred Cow Tipping – Time to Change Focus

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Creating a Tipping Point for Sustainable Economic Prosperity

The Status Quo is at it again – trying to blow the smoke of denial in our eyes. They would like us to rescue the Old Economy and bring back the old ways of manipulating commerce and unsustainable business practices.

Sacred Cow Tipping Game

What is actually required is to move forward and build the infrastructure for a New Economy based on sustainability, access and accountability. Yet the Sacred Cow that says, “Keep looking backwards” is front and center, stubbornly digging it’s heels in to sabotage any real change.

Most people know in their heart of hearts that the old economy is dying. The Old Guard would love to feed the sense of hopelessness and fear with their carefully calculated doomsday predictions and the Media will gladly oblige.

What we can do to pull the plug on this kind of thinking is to turn our focus towards businesses and solutions that are being built now, rather than spending our precious resources on keeping the Titanic afloat.

To do that, we will have  to release our social contract to comply with “Keep looking backwards”. One way to do that is to consciously make some new decisions.

Soul Contract Circle

Take a look at the Soul Contract Circle above and use these affirmations to break the contract:

“I release my agreement to buy into the fear, denial and doomsday thinking of the Old Guard.”

“I release any agreements I have to feed them with my attention or energy.

“I stop supporting those who are greedy or irresponsible.”

“I now focus on building the infrastructure for a sustainable economy.”

If you want to change your focus even more, you can play the entire Sacred Cow Tipping Point Game.

Tip all sixteen Sacred Cows for Economic Prosperity

Rheanni Lighwater © 2008

Kuan Yins Advice for March

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Grounding in the New Paradigm

Kuan Yin has been helping us to transition from the old paradigm to a new paradigm of sustainable prosperity.

Her advice springs from the I Ching, an ancient book of divination that follows the flow of the cosmos. Because of that, her advice and instruction comes from a different perspective than ours.

Kuan Yins I Ching Readings

Kuan Yins I Ching Readings

To help you better connect with her  assistance, she uses Intuitive Learning Circles to communicate with you through meditation, affirmations and visualization.

These Circles and Charts will help you to identify problems, change your focus to positive solutions, ground yourself and get in the present. Simply relax and gaze at them while contemplating Kuan Yins  words. Your intuition will come forward and give you the help that you seek.

The I Ching Reading for March 

Hexagram #23 DETERIORATION (Splitting Apart)

 

Identify the problem

Identify the problem

If you are feeling hopeless, it is because you are focusing on what is falling apart rather than that which is being built.

There is a great and accelerated deterioration in matters that pertain to the old Status Quo. Do not focus your eyes and senses towards them because there is little that you can do in the arena of the old economy.

 

Focus Your Attention on Positive Solutions

Focus Your Attention on Positive Solutions

Focus instead upon the new grids of prosperity that are already growing like flowers throughout your country. Like a plant, they need your attention and loving intentions to help them grow and be strong.

If you are a person who is building one of these new flowers, take the time now to fully disengage from that which is disintegrating around you.

 

Ground Yourself

Ground Yourself

Step into the new garden of sustainable prosperity and make sure the flower that is your business and service to the community is fully planted in the new garden.

Don’t assume that you have completed the replanting of your energy and livelihoods because aspects have been entrenched in the old until just recently.

 

Visualize

Visualize

See your business endeavor as a flower. What kind of flower does it seem to be like?

With this symbol, imagine that you can send it love and light and all the elements required for life to flourish.

When you are grounded in hope rather than fear, the trajectory of your efforts to prosper has no other choice than to head in the direction of your highest good.

Taking the time now to replant yourself fully in the garden of hope will prevent future mishaps and conflicts.”


Rheanni Lightwater  copyright 2009

Sacred Cow Tipping – Blame the Victim

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Large Sacred CowCreating a Tipping Point for Economic Prosperity

Long, long ago, the Status Quo established a particularly opportunist Sacred Cow to use whenever cornered by their own abuse of power. This collective agreement was bred and perpetuated into the people through the use of force and trauma to avoid responsibility, and it’s being used now with the economy:

“Blame the Victim.”

The way it often works is for the perpetrator to insist that they had no choice – they had to do whatever it was they did because of the victim. They don’t want the economic recovery plan to help the people that need it the most. They think they are able to depend on compliance because the victims are so used to being abused, falling into the role almost automatically. A victim readily accepts blame because that is what they have been trained to do through repeated traumatic events.

Freeing Up the Victim Mentality

Intuitive Learning Circle Look at the Sacred Contract Circle to your right and go through this checklist of agreements that support the identity of being a victim:

“I release the agreement that I am to blame for things others do.”

“I retract any statements I have made while being threatened.”

“I completely forgive myself for the mistakes I believe myself to have made.”

“I am forgiven, regardless of what any other person has told me.”

Now go through the tipping point game and let’s tip this Sacred Cow to send a clear message that there is another choice.

Thank you for your participation – the energy that you are freeing up through this process is making a difference on how bad this economic crisis gets.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2008

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Sacred Cow Tipping – The Hidden Cost of War

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Large Sacred CowCreating a Tipping Point for Economic Prosperity

There are many good reasons why people have difficulty changing direction and some of them have to do with our Sacred Cows.

The majority of these unconscious agreements are held in place by trauma.

By far, the biggest cause of trauma is war and the members of the old guard that perpetuate it. That’s why today’s Sacred Cows are:

“Treat people like commodities; use them up and then throw them away.”

And

“Only weak people experience post-traumatic stress.”

What is Post Traumatic Stress?

Warlike Energies

Personally, I have suffered from many of the symptoms of post traumatic stress for most of my life:

  • Feeling fear about the future
  • Difficulty concentrating
  • Frequent boughts of insomnia or nightmares
  • Feelings of guilt or helplessness
  • Uncontrollable crying
  • Flashbacks
  • Shock and overwhelm.

As a child, I had a horrible time getting along with others and school was a major struggle. I grew up with constant panic attacks and seemed to get myself in trouble no matter what I did.

It wasn’t until my mid-thirties that I realized my behavior was not due to just being a bad person as I was often told. I had reasons for my apparent lack of control, and they were good ones. My father was a navigator in the Army Air Corps during World War II and the Korean War and had participated in countless bombing missions. When he came home, the U. S. Military gave him a couple of weeks R&R in the Carribean – no counseling and no opportunity to decompress from the horrors of war.

Needless to say, he was not ready to return and take up the role of “Father Knows Best”, the popular TV show of the time. He was moody, given to rages, migraines and had no patience for small children. I lived my preschool years in absolute fear of him and as a young adult, I rebelled and went out of my way to hurt him. It wasn’t until I was 44 and he was dying of cancer that I understood where the violence had come from; what had happened to our family and what was really responsible for it.

Before he passed away, my father shared his deep regret and guilt about killing so many people. The pain and remorse that he had been holding in was eating up his body and palpable on his face as he recounted wartime experiences that both humbled and horrified me at the same time.

I literally watched him go yellow and break out into a cold sweat while he detoxed a drug the military had given him in place of quinine as a “treatment” for malaria. Evidently the drug did nothing whatsoever to protect him or the thousands of other soldiers who took it from malaria, it was only intended to keep them on their feet no matter what. No wonder he turned into a workaholic and could never relax. The mass use of that drug may explain a lot about the health problems of many men of his generation – heart attacks, stoicism, emotional inaccessability, workaholism, alcolholism, not to mention cancer.

In his death, my father taught me something very important about post traumatic stress. He had spent his whole life running away from it, yet when he realized his time was running out, he began to accept what had happened and how frightened he had been. By providing him with a safe and loving place to talk, he was able to let it go emotionally, spiritually and physically. I know that by the time he passed away, he had made his peace with me and more importantly, with himself.

With him as an inspiration, I sought after a form of treatment that might be instrumental in breaking the cycle of war, abuse, learning disabilities and chronic health problems, and that is how the circles we use in our Tipping game came to be.

This set of Sacred Cows will not tip on their own. Please join me in playing this game.

Tip all sixteen Sacred Cows for Economic Prosperity
Rheanni Lighwater © 2008

I Ching Reading – January Transitions

Monday, January 26th, 2009

The Goal of your economic system has been, up until this point, purely the acquisition of money. Today marks the beginning of a new era where money will eventually find its proper place.

Kuan Yin Simplicity GameIn the new system, the Goal of Balance becomes primary as that is the only frame of existance that can support life on a long-term basis.

Much needs to be done, yet your recent freedom from the bondage of your old ways can help you make the change.

It has been mentioned before that there are new chalices to contain the flow of prosperity. Some are still very much attached to the old chalice, which I will call “Greed”. When making your way to the new chalices, you will have better luck if you can understand how you have been out of balance and what to do to regain it.

As you make the transition from Greed to Balance it is of great importance that you don’t confront or struggle with opposing forces and as a result become emotionally involved with what is, actually, a futile situation. If you remain entangled with these forces you will not be able to make progress.

ProsperityListen to your heart and let it give you a song that will help you to remain on track and in balance.

Think of your new life as a garden that you will be tending differently. To train your mind to make appropriate adjustments, consider using the Games for Hope Series.

Each game will help you to set up and nurture your new garden using the new chalices of prosperity.

“Bring Balance Into Your Life and Prosperity Shall Be Yours”

Rheanni Lightwater © 2009  

 

Sacred Cow – Who Defines Value

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Creating a Tipping Point for Economic Prosperity

The further we go on our journey and the more Sacred Cows that get tipped, the easier it is to see the real agenda of those who want to stay in control.Sacred Cow Quartet Creating and maintaining conflict of any kind is the name of the game for them. They are helped by the fact that so many contracts have been built into the very fabric of society. Nevertheless, we will persevere in tipping those Cows that interfere with our forward progress, particularly those that fuel conflict. Conflicts get a lot of fuel from the Sacred Cow of superiority:

“Strictly enforce a moral and economic code that reinforces the power of the Status Quo.”

This contract is particularly effective because it allows the Status Quo to define and enforce the perimeters of what’s important and what’s not. Here are only a few examples:

Hard work = important
Rest = not important

Short term results = important
Long term best interests = not important

Reclaim Your Ability to Choose

This contract also gives the old guard the power to impose it’s preferences about what’s good (compliance) and what’s bad (being different). And there’s more:

Peaceful = weak
Violent = powerful

Flashy & glossy = desirable
Straightforward & basic = undesirable

Simple = less valuable
Complex = more valuable
Weapons of Mass Destruction = very valuable

Intuitive Learning Circle Look at the Sacred Soul Contract Circle to your right and ask yourself:

“Are these arbitrary value judgments coming from outside of me having a negative effect on me or my ability to manifest?”

Some people would say that this kind of social imposition of values is inevitable, an inescapable by-product of a civilized people. I respond to this assertion by respectfully releasing any familial, racial or national agreement that says it has to be that way. Play our Sacred Cow Tipping Point game and take back your power to freely choose what has value for you and what doesn’t.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2008

Tip All Sixteen Sacred Cows on Economic Prosperity!




Sacred Cow Tipping – Reclaiming Trust

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Everyone can make mistakes. However, if someone has abused your trust repeatedly, do you just keep trusting them? Do you follow their lead blindly without questioning their authority? Once you discover you’ve been misled, do you let them get away with it?

Three Sacred CowsThe Status Quo would like for you to do just that when it comes to the mismanagement and downright dishonesty that they have repeatedly perpetrated on our economy and our nation. After all, they are too big to fail, so that automatically excuses everything. Right?

Yes, the old guard is pretty fearful of the prospect of really going in a new direction. Yet, because of the progress that has been made by many dedicated hearts, the beast is losing it’s balance and getting pretty bossy in its attempts to regain control. One of the tactics it is likely to try is to push the use of this Sacred Cow:

“Excuse people in positions of authority, regardless of whether or not they have abused our trust.”

I suggest that we nip this one in the bud because without justice, we will never be able to reclaim trust.Intuitive Learning Circle And trust is what fuels a healthy economy.

You can start by cutting off the underlying Sacred Cows using the Soul Contract Circle with these affirmations:

“I release my agreement to trust the untrustworthy,”

and

“I release my agreement to put up with mismanagement.”

And

“I release any agreement I have to let them get away with it.”

Then, when you play today’s tipping  point game, imagine you can go back through the history of your ancestors. Think about all the traumatic experiences they went through on account of decisions that some unqualified crony made; wars, occupations, genocide, crusades, slavery, broken promises, lost jobs, abuse, mismanagement and so on. As the living heir of your family, exercise your authority and release all those agreements. See every last unjust appointment, treaty and decree burn away into nothingness. Then consciously make a new agreement to incorporate competence and honesty into a new direction.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2008

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Sacred Cow – Its All About the Money

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Creating a Tipping Point for Economic Prosperity

What does bailout have in common with burnout?

The Wall Street Bailout has raised the ire of a lot of people and for good reason. Our priorities are upside down. The reason why those securities originally went bad is because people were not able to pay their mortgages. To solve the issue in the long term means that people need to have opportunities to take good care of themselves and their families. What makes simple sense is to improve their lot in life, so that they can fulfill their agreement to pay, thus keeping the banks and their securities solvent.Sacred Cow  The only thing that has been getting real attention in the media is the money. Today’s Sacred Cow is:

“It’s all about the money.”

What about sustaining self-respect and an individual’s ability to take care of themselves? So many people have hit the skids and yet, it’s the bankers we are supposed to help. It’s give, give, give, until there isn’t anything left. And now we’ve even gone way beyond that point.


A Microcosm of the Macrocosm

So what does this have to do with burnout? I have found that people in my practice who are sick often feel loath to do things to take care of themselves. They feel that they are somehow being selfish – that they shouldn’t be asking for anything extra. Often there is another member of the family whose needs are supposed to take precedence over theirs.“So and so has it so bad, how could I possibly ask for anything?”“I don’t have time to do that for myself, I’ve got to take care of thus and such.”And so they go without for long periods of time, sometimes their whole lives. Their minds are conditioned to accept their lot in life; however, their bodies and gut feelings are operating out of the reality of what’s really going on. The result is illness – depression, chronic fatigue, diabetes, you name it.


Finances Aren’t the Only Thing That Can Go Bankrupt

I often say to them, “You can’t give what you don’t have.” Yet somehow they keep expecting that they can and their health continues to suffer. Their bodies are literally burning out because their energy supply is bankrupt. They are running on empty. And so is our economy.Intuitive Learning Circle Look at the Soul Contract Circle to release the two agreements that cause the emotional and physical crash:“I release the agreement that taking good care of myself means that I am being selfish. I replace it with “It’s okay to invest in myself.”“I release the agreement that keeping the Status Quo going is more important than keeping myself going. I decide that “My needs are important.”


As you play today’s  tipping point game, ask yourself what your current needs really are. This will help you to turn your priorities right side up. I know that you know someone who could really use this game, after you play it yourself, consider passing it on to friends, family and or co-workers who are in the process of burning out.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2008

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Sacred Cow Tipping – Freedom of Information

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Sacred CowUp until this point we have been going after the Sacred Cows that set the general groundwork for the Status Quo to maintain its grip on us. Today, we will play a game that will be much more pinpointed towards breaking up this economic malaise we find ourselves in. The goal is to free up energy and release agendas that have worked against the common good.There are a lot of great ideas out there. Isn’t it interesting how often projects and ideas that support the common good are proclaimed “prohibitively expensive and therefore economically unviable” by the Status Quo?What if we were to demand that the old guard back up their claims with reliable data that comes from actual experience?Something tells me that there are warehouses filled with great, sustainabe ideas that got bought up and packed away for the sole purpose of keeping us trapped in the malaise.Intuitive Learning Circle Let’s start by tipping the Sacred Cow that holds up a lot of progress:

“Withhold ideas, information and technology that could benefit humanity and the planet.”

Play our tipping game and release any unconscious agreement you may be carrying that supports this Sacred Cow.

If you know someone who is having difficulty getting out the word about their great idea or technology, send them this game. They could get a lot out of it.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2008  

 

Sacred Cow – Taking Things Personally

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

One of the most stressful things about living under the old guard is the tired Sacred Cow that states:

Sacred Cow“You should conform to the beliefs of the status quo, and if you don’t there is something wrong with you.”

When someone doesn’t like something about you, it’s about him or her, not you. They are responding out of their own prejudices, likes and dislikes. If you take it personally, you are buying into their emotional paradigm on a certain level and letting them dictate how you are feeling.

Set yourself free by releasing your agreement to buy into their stuff.

Releasing the Old Paradigm of Emotional Control

Use the Sacred Contract Circle on your right to release any tendency to take things personally, especially in these circumstances:

  • RaccoonWhen your spouse or loved one doesn’t like what you’re doing
  • When a boss or family member criticizes you
  • When your receive a poor review or evaluation
  • When something you do doesn’t work
  • When someone takes advantage of you
  • When something of yours gets stolen
  • When someone tries to tell you what to do or how to do it.

As you go through today’s Sacred Cow Tipping Game, think about this question:

How would you like to see yourself from now on?

Rheanni Lightwater © 2008

To play the game go to: http://intuitivelearningcircle.com/sacred-cow-tipping/