Day 17 of 30 Days to Creating a Change in Direction

The waters may have been quite turbulent for you the last few days. If you haven’t given up you instinctively know that somehow you are heading in a new direction towards peace and prosperity. Many other people have participated in this game, both within the U.S. and all around the world.

The next stage in your journey is almost ready to unfold. In the days to come, you will be continuing to connect and move forward more easily with others; yet in order for that to happen smoothly, it will help to take some time and allow yourself to stabilize before moving on.

One way to explain what’s happening is to think of this process as a bowl of Jell-O. You have combined the ingredients, heated them together and poured them into the mold. Now it’s time to allow the Jell-O to set. If you keep stirring it up, it won’t form properly. It’s time to chill a little, so to speak.

With that idea in mind, let’s release the collective contract behind some of the stress we’re experiencing via the media and the politicians. Today’s Sacred Cow is:

“Keep the fear going by fueling it with speculation, uncertainty and psychodrama.”

When our minds and bodies are kept under continual stress, we are like the Jell-o that won’t set. We’re more susceptible to illness, misinformation, fantasies and accidents. Tipping this Sacred Cow will calm down the external noise a bit. Then finding some time to rest and still your mind will be a tremendous help.

For those of you who are looking for additional support in calming down and quieting the mind, we have three games in an E-book called “Taming the Bear”, which is available for free to anyone who signs up for our monthly newsletter.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2006

Day 18 of 30 Days to Creating a Tipping Point

Elections are an opportunity a new beginning and beginnings are always filled with a myriad of opportunities. Unfortunately, we have been trained by the media and Status Quo to be easily distracted by irrevelent arguments and speculation about the future or the past.

Our strength and power lies in being fully present so that we can recognize, evaluate and make quality decisions that are based on the facts. That is the only way to create unity of purpose. That is why today’s Sacred Cow is:

“Divide and conquer.”

We are all part of the social order, regardless of our individual positions or occupations. Taking advantage of the opportunities to create more unity will keep us from floundering in a sea of contradictory and partisan goals.

Tip the Sacred Cow of Divide and Conquer.

Rheanni Lightwater ©  2006

Day 19 of 30 Days to Creating a Change in Direction

The Status Quo is angry at the prospect of actually following a new direction. Because of all the progress that has been made by many dedicated hearts, the beast is weakened and frustrated in its attempts to regain control.

One of the tactics it is likely to try is to push the use of this Sacred Cow:
“Appoint friends and associates to positions of authority, regardless of whether or not they are qualified to be there.”

I suggest that we head this one off at the pass because we have fallen for it before and a lot of damage was done.

When you go through today’s tipping 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, 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 your new direction.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2006

Day 20 of 30 Days to Creating a Change in Direction

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:

“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 are able to depend on compliance because the victims are so used to being abused, falling into the roll almost automatically. A victim readily accepts blame because that is what they have been trained to do through repeated traumatic events.

Let’s tip this Sacred Cow and send a clear message that there is always more than one choice. Thank you for your participation - you are making a difference.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2006

Day 22 of 30 Days to Creating a Change in DirectionWe are heading for another major Sacred Cow and her siblings, and they just love to keep us stuck in the mire of doubt, fear and cynicism:

“Without the Status Quo in charge, the world would fall into chaos and be destroyed.”

This “big one” sets the playing field up so that the others can spread their misinformation and thinly veiled threats throughout the pasture, keeping people like us corralled into a scenario of doom and gloom. This manure creates thoughts in our heads, like these:

~ “You don’t know what you’re doing.”
~ “You obviously don’t understand.”
~ “You’re lost.”
~ “What if you make a mistake?”

Those kinds of thoughts don’t lead us in a new direction, they take us right back to avoidance of our own power and being willing to settle for less.

“It’s too hard. We don’t have a chance – we’re screwed.”
“I’m stuck, we’re stuck, the whole world is stuck. Let’s face it, there’s no way out”.

We aren’t stuck; we’re heading in the wrong direction. Let go fo your personal, familial and cultural agreement to be lead around by the Status Quo. Tip the cow and make a new commitment to a change in direction. Not just any change, a real change that has freedom, peace and prosperity at its core.

Rheanni Lightwater Ccpyright 2006

Day 23 of 30 Days to Creating a Change in Direction

The Status Quo is like a Hydra and lately it’s behaving as if several of its heads have been cut off. It has been weakened by the people who have already woken up to what’s going on and started to speak out against it. However, the Hydra is able to grow back its heads and the grab for power continues all around us. This has happened countless times in the history books of our planet, only to have the sovereignty of the people violently squelched or put back to sleep in a bed of apathy.

That is the reason for tipping today’s Sacred Cow:

“Those who are in Power are above the Law”

Use today’s game to call up and release any collective, family or individual agreement that supports that assertion. Imagine the agreements as ancient, out of date contracts. Set fire to them and watch them burn into nothingness. Tip the Cow for accountability.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2006

Day 24 of 30 Days to Creating a Change in Direction
 
It’s an important day on your journey and the Status Quo has called out “Old Reliable”, the Sacred Cow that always knows what to do when the going gets tough:

“Find a scapegoat to distract attention and defer responsibility.”

This age-old custom of sacrificing an individual, group or race is affectionately called “the blame game” and is responsible for entangling humanity in most of her Civil Wars. She has a very seductive quality that we have difficulty resisting. Yet, in order for us to manifest the change in direction we desire, it is imperative that we keep the transition as smooth as possible. Indulging in scapegoating today has the potential to bring your momentum to a halt.

You can disentangle yourself from this insidious tradition by releasing your personal, familial or racial agreement to participate in the scapegoating game. Tip our Sacred Cow to make sure that “Old Reliable” can’t use your energy to stop your progress.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2006

Day 25 of 30 Days to Creating a Change in Direction

What does your instinct tell you about the direction we are heading now? Can you trust what you’re feeling in your gut? Our Sacred Cow for today wants you to ignore that gnawing feeling and

“Stay the Course.”

Yep, Ol’ Nellie just wants you to sit back and hand it all over to the Status Quo.

•  “Leave it to us. We understand what’s going on and you don’t.”
•  “We know what’s good for the country.”
•  “Don’t trust your instincts, trust us.”
•  “Love ain’t the answer – guns are.”
•  “Them people over there just want to kill us, so let’s kill them first.”

What might we do instead? One of the best examples of instinctual love that still remains today lives in young motherhood. Look at what they endure, yet in spite of all the rancor and turmoil on the planet somehow their love survives. They love their children, their husbands, their community - they do the best they can. For me, they are the symbol and embodiment of hope for the future.

My instinct tells me that if we “stay the course”, even that will be destroyed. In the name of motherhood, I hope you’ll join me in tipping this cow.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2006

Day 26 of 30 Days to Creating a Change in Direction

Many Sacred Cows work together in teams to create confusion, betrayal and what is commonly referred to as “no-win situations”. Take for example yesterday’s Sacred Cow: “Demonize the form and function of Nature whenever you can”, which basically condemns all of our natural urges. A person has a difficult enough time handling the ramifications of that without making themselves sick.

However, add that to today’s Sacred Cow:

“Demand perfection – all the time.”

Now you’ve got a no-win situation. By the Status Quo’s own commandments we are creatures of imperfection and sin. Yet, on the other hand, we’re supposed to spend all of our time trying to avoid punishment by being perfect. For most of us the result is generally just being way too hard on ourselves with an unconscious expectation of punishment.

In the circles that strongly believe in both Sacred Cows, the result is a lot of confused people struggling against themselves. Logic and common sense get twisted and perverted. The specter of punishment takes its position front and center as the enforcer of power. Those who want to get to the top put so much pressure on themselves that eventually they implode, or the situation around them explodes.

We’ve seen a lot of that kind of thing lately. I say it’s time to mercifully detach from the trap and Tip this Cow today.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2006

Day 27 of 30 Days to Creating a Change in Direction 

The tide is turning and when that happens it’s important not to become overly confident and careless. The flow of Nature and Man are intimately connected in ways we have yet to fully understand, yet Nature isn’t always working against our aims, as we are so often led to believe. With the proper respect it is possible to harness her power for our benefit and learn to travel with the flow, rather than against it. That’s why we’ve chosen today to Tip the Sacred Cow grazing hungrily behind the scenes of the Status Quo’s ingratitude and folly: “Demonize the form and function of Nature whenever you can”