Consciousness Known by Rhonda O'Brien

Chapter taken from Light, channeled by Rhonda O'Brien

We were all placed on this planet for a reason: in some way or another we are all benefiting from being here right here and now. There are no coincidences here. By the same token we can, all, also benefit the Earth by being here right here and now. We (each and every one of us) can help to change the seemingly dire plight of our mother Earth. The only problem lies in each and every one of us realizing just how important our role in this mission is and, most importantly, how important we are (plain and simple.)

We are all healers. Let me repeat: we are all healers. (Yes, even you.) People, like you and me, have been healing ourselves not by the magic of some pill, not by the magic of one person’s knowledge, but by our faith that we could find the cure or the solution to our own problem for hundreds upon thousands of years. We can heal ourselves of anything and everything, without books, without pills, without doctors, without anything other than ourselves and our belief. We are self-sufficient packages that CAN care for and help ourselves without any additives. We have just been relying on our professionals and our magic pills for so long that we don’t think otherwise.

We are powerful beyond measure. We can heal ourselves, we can heal each other and we can heal this planet Earth, but first we must first heal ourselves. I cannot emphasize enough how important this primary step is. For in all actuality this Earth is a direct reflection of us. We are hurting; therefore, the precious Earth that we live on and rely on so heavily is hurting as well. Since we are the source of all of this suffering, healing the wound evidenced on the Earth without healing the source would only prove to be a temporary solution. And much like cancer the tumor and the turmoil will surface once again until the source of the illness is healed.

Now I cannot say for certain what all of us are suffering from. In most cases I can say for certain that we all lack a sense of purpose. We are milling around looking for something, anything to do, because truly, many of us have not taken the time to look inside ourselves for any substantial amount of time. We are too easily distracted by all of the activity going on around us: the drama, the excitement, and the play. We are, in fact, overworked, over-tired and overwhelmed, because we just plain are doing too much at once and we are not able to do it all with much success. We simply do not have the time or the energy to put our all into any one thing making us feel like we are just barely floating above water, not really excelling or accomplishing much.

Much more could and would be done if we just slloooooowwwweeed doooooownnn. We can all do this, I promise, even those of you that put in 80+ hours a week at the office. You might benefit the most from this sort of restructuring of your time frame. Just think, if you just adjusted your clocks, allowed things to happen on their own schedule, things, most of the things that really needed to be done would be completed with a bit more thoroughness rather than being rushed through. Now, of course, maybe we couldn’t finish everything on our list, and some of the less important tasks could drop to the wayside as they naturally, sometimes, do.

Some of you might find that with less on your mind, less pressure to complete a million tasks you work more consciously creating better products in less time. I would be willing to bet that so much of our energy is being diverted in so many directions that many of us can hardly focus on one task long enough to finish one project in one sitting. So much energy is wasted in transitioning from one activity to another. It takes time and energy to move back and forth and back again between projects and all that does go on in our lives that it is amazing that any of us are able to accomplish anything at all.

“So how do we get there from here?” I hear many of us asking. Our “to do” lists are already sky high and piling up higher and higher, how do we determine what is worth our energy and what is not? Well that, really, is up to you. What I recommend doing is looking through these lists and then making two separate lists from the existing lists or starting a new list-making procedure in which there is one column for the absolute essential work and then another column containing things that you can do, if you want, after the first list is completed. Now what many of you will find is that you cannot separate your two lists, because everything seems necessary. Now let’s highlight the things that we think that we must do to please others. Some of us might have a lot of highlighted items and some of us might have a few. But, undoubtedly, we all have a few items that fall under this category, because, no matter who or what you are, we all have a need to please others.

Now with this list of highlighted items I want you to ask yourself whom this pleases and why you think that you need to please this person. Now, at this point, many of us are crossing some things off of our list, for it really does seem silly that we try so hard to please others often times sacrificing our own happiness time and time again. The fact is that we are all right and the people that truly like us for who and what we are like us regardless of what we do for them. And if people only like us for the things that we do for them then they really are not true friends or your relationship with them is tenuous to begin with and nothing you do will please them or win you the acceptance that you are seeking.

If you want true acceptance then the only person that you need to look to is yourself. Once you begin to love and accept yourself all instantly becomes much, much easier. Instead of beating yourself up constantly, (which we all do entirely too much of) you are able to support and nurture yourself and all of the marvelous things that you do. Really it makes a world of difference. So let’s all stop beating ourselves up and, instead, acknowledge the greatness in all of us from time to time. You will be surprised at how much of a difference this simple change can make in your life.

Also, it is important to note that life is a process and realize that we can and do make mistakes and, hopefully, we learn from these mistakes only to do better next time. And even if we don’t learn and do better next time then there will be the next time and the next time after that. We can and do make mistakes, but that does not mean that we are wrong or bad or stupid. Luckily we do make mistakes because sometimes mistakes are the greatest opportunities to learn in life.

And that is a major point that I would like to leave this portion of the book with: we are all here to learn. If we were not here to learn then we would be somewhere else doing something else. This is a planet in which much can and will be learned by the individuals who chose to come here. I will not get into much depth here, but in other planes and on other planets, beings might be teaching more than learning or mastering more than learning, but here we have all chosen, in one way or another, to learn. So as active, anxious learners, we should be able to embrace this life and all of its opportunities for growth and learning even if that does mean embracing the hardest times in our lives.

Copyright © 2010 Rhonda O'Brien. All Rights Reserved.