Consciousness Known by Rhonda O'Brien

I must admit that I have had a hard time listening lately. A part of me is in rebellion screaming to the universe, "Do I have a big 'Kick Me' sign on my back?"

I keep listening and I keep getting in situations that are hard, really hard, back breakingly hard. I want to listen, I know better than not to listen, but I keep going into difficult situations with reticence and keep coming up hurt.

So guys, guides, angels...here's the thing...I don't want to do this anymore. Can we have some grace, some ease, something wonderful...please?

I don't ask for much...I just don't want all the hurt. I have started to shut down, not listen, because I don't know what to trust and I don't want to hurt.

I thought for so long that the one thing that I could trust was my voice, my inner knowing. I got courageous...did a few things...that were hard, that I tested out, that I followed through with...that as you are hearing...didn't really work out.

My best defense was to stop listening...at least for awhile...like a rebellious teen that knew that mom and dad knew best but wasn't really willing to listen...just for awhile.

Well mom and dad are still trying to get my attention and I must say that I am glad that they are not totally abandoning me. I am glad that guides do not give up, they persist, they are resourceful in their own ways and scream and yell until we listen...again or once or twice or always.

I know that they are always at our disposal waiting to serve in whatever means possible and I am grateful for that. :)

And I am particularly grateful for the messages that have come through in the form of numerology.

222 - when I was wondering about getting back together with an ex and reaching out to the universe for a sign this number popped out of the clock on my desk phone. I felt like, in combination with the other signs that I had received that this was a good sign to move forward.

According to Doreen Virtue 222 means "Have faith. Everything’s going to be all right. Don’t worry about anything, as this situation is resolving itself beautifully for everyone involved."

444 - yesterday this number popped out on my iPhone. At this moment I can see that the angels are surrounding me and letting me know that I am not alone and I am grateful for this message.

According to Doreen Virtue 444 means "Thousands of angels surround you at this moment, loving and supporting you. You have a very strong and clear connection with the angelic realm, and are an Earth angel yourself. You have nothing to fear—all is well."

1111 - I quickly glanced at my clock and this number appeared yesterday. Again, I am grateful for the message that I am not alone and am being supported. Thank you for not abandoning me.

According to my guidance 1111 means that we are on the right path and divinely guided. All is well. No need to worry.

I know enough to know that we are not alone and in these moments where I question (everything) I am glad to know that I still have friends and guides and companions.

It is further proof that our guides go out of their way to scream, shout and constantly remind us (even when we are diligently trying not to listen) that we are not alone and are unconditionally loved and supported.

I am grateful for your presence and someday I might have greater understanding of all the wisdom that you have provided for me and I might possibly be grateful for all of the advice that you have given me even though your navigational skills have put me on some pretty rocky roads.:)

ps. After I wrote this post I had the feeling that I needed to turn to a page in In His Words (a book that I channeled from a 23-year old who had crossed over. It's a story about not giving up on life and life after death from a 23-year old guy's perspective...on the other side). I just wanted to share the entry that I turned to. It was a timely message:) and once again I am grateful.

"By the end of my more earthbound moments I was able to create mystical events that defied reason. On one such occasion, I created a whirlwind of commotion in the bounds of Rhonda's workplace. I knocked out a ceiling tile that was held in place by a simple lock although it was difficult to fool. What I did was I became physical in that one single moment. It was not something that I intended to do, I just wanted her to know that I was still around her even though she was not always aware of that." (p 29)

I found this TED video of Sarah Kay and fell in love. I think most of all it speaks to a part of me that knows that each of us have something to contribute, that each of us has genius. Part of that genius is tapping into that part of us that is unique, that is uniquely genius not being someone or something that we are not.

I am beginning to see this quite clearly, through personal experience and pain. Me trying to be someone else when I know clearly who I am is not working. Maybe being who I am is hard, but trying to be someone else is currently proving to be much harder.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”― Albert Einstein

I think we can all resonate with this on some level. I remember the first time I learned this I was in 7th grade trying so desperately to be popular and the more I tried the harder it was. My dad sensed what was going on and he told me "No matter how hard you try you can't make everyone happy. You have to make yourself happy first." That lesson changed my life, it is a lesson I relay repeatedly and it is something that I have to remember time and time again. Because, time and time again, I am faced with that same lesson. I can't make everyone happy. I can only do my best, search myself for the right course of action, and act in a way that makes me proud.

So I was inspired by this video and would love to hear what other people know. I have quickly compiled my list and would like to share my list and see your lists, if possible. In this way, we can grow and expand and possibly learn from one another. I do believe we have genius within all of us if only we explore who we are and the unique selves and gifts that we bring to the world.



The 10 Things I Know To Be True:
1. People, not things, matter most.
2. I learned this one being a teacher's assistant for a Kindergarten class: it's ok to say your sorry because even though you didn't mean to hurt someone sometimes you do hurt them and it's ok to say you are sorry.
3. Life is full of miracles. If you expect to see miracles they will appear.
4. Go with your gut. You know well enough, by now, if you don't that you will regret that you didn't.
5. Have faith in people because we are all trying our best to get by.
6. Forgive for yourself because being bitter and angry only hurts you. Don't allow another person to take any more of your energy than they deserve.
7. People come into your life for a reason even if it is to teach you a lesson through hardship. Pay attention to those lessons and learn so that you don't have to learn them again.
8. Life is full of learning. Learn the lessons because the same lesson will be put in front of your face, time and time again, until you learn it. Often the lesson gets more insistent and painful the more that you ignore it so that you learn from it.
9. Love. Even if it's hard, especially if it's hard.
10. You have an infinite support system, they are called spirit guides. They are always there to talk to you and you can talk to them anytime. I have always known that life is hard and it is easy to feel all alone and I knew that there was more support out there. There is an abundant amount of support, in the form of spirit guides, waiting anxiously for us to ask for help. Ask for help you might be surprised at the answer(s) you may find.

I would love to know what you know. Much of my list comes from my experience as a Psychic Medium who has seen a lot of lives, who sees the same patterns and/or lessons through the canvas of other people's lives (both living and dead). Perhaps the most profound of my experiences comes from talking to people who have crossed over. From them I have learned the importance of people and relationships. This is one of the only legacies that lives on from lifetime to lifetime. We don't take our savings, our cars, our houses with us, but we do take the way that we treat and are treated by people. Be nice to one another;).

I was praying for grace...I know that's the way life is sometimes...looking for that ray of sunshine in the perpetual darkness of the cloudy skies that extend for days and I stumbled upon this video. It was my ray of sunshine. I hope the sun shines for days from this one ray of lightness...enjoy! I also think there are some people...one in particular that I need to be more vulnerable to...

One of my clients was telling me that she healed the Earth. I was immediately intrigued and thought that I needed to do this in my yard. I moved into a new home and did a pretty shotty job of ammending the soil and so my plants were a little slow to grow.

I decided to imagine putting bubbles of energy deep in the soil and then putting energy on top of the soil. I try to remember to do this as often as possible and I send lots of love to my yard as much as possible. It is so easy to be pleased with a flower garden. It doesn't matter how bad your day is when you see a flower bloom for the first time of the season it is like falling in love with nature's beauty time and time again. I love watching my garden grow.

I was pleased with my garden's progression although I didn't know if the energy work was working or not then I noticed my tree. My tree was almost dead when I moved in as were most of the newly planted trees in my neighbor's yard. At one point in the late spring/early summer my aunt and uncle commented that they thought that my tree was dead. At this point we all noticed how my tree and my neighbor's tree only had a few unhealthy looking red/orange leaves sprouting from a few of the branches. Just a few weeks later I noticed that my tree had pulled through and then I looked over at my neighbor's tree and it didn't have any leaves on it in June. Their tree looked dead or close to dead while my tree looked much healthier. I must say my tree still looks sad and pathetic much like a Charlie Brown tree but it didn't die.

I would have to say that the energy work worked! I must, once again, thank my client(s) for all that they have taught me.

I was at a crosswalk and heard a lot of honking. I looked up and saw a car going the wrong way on a major, six lane road. Watching the interaction I was thinking of how nice it would be if life honked at you to warn you that you were headed in the wrong direction. Then I started thinking of a recent reading that I had done in which my client had told me that she just wanted to know if she was headed in the wrong direction or not.

Immediately my head started spinning with memories of times when I had, in fact, been warned that I had been heading the wrong direction. Spirit has a way of communcating to us in a wonderful magnitude of ways; here is a list of just a few instances in which I can see that spirit was trying to warn me or someone else about the direction that I/we had been headed:

1. We were camping in Glacier National Park and as we were checking out this campsite I had an ominous feeling and even mentioned to my campmates that something felt rather like the movie "Deliverance." Then a man on a three wheeler told us to be careful about bears visiting our campsite. Then I had this feeling that we would be visited by bears. What happened that night? A momma and baby cub bear came to visit our camp site.

2. A friend of mine was traveling to Steamboat, CO for the weekend. The day that he left he hit a duck with his car, then at work his colleagues were talking about moose and hitting moose with your car. That night he hit a moose with his car. In retrospect, of course, I can see how hitting a duck and talking about hitting a moose foreshadowed his accident that night and were, in fact, signs of what was to come.

3. I was preparing for a date with a guy and I burned my hand on the stove. I remember thinking that this burn was a sign. When the relationship didn't work out the way that I wanted it to I could see how that was spirit trying to tell me about the nature of this relationship: yes, the burn/way the relationship ended hurt, but now there is barely a scar (just a small reminder of the pain).

4. I was speeding and heard, "slow down." Thankfully, I immediately slowed down because 20 seconds later I passed a cop.

I can think of so many other instances (big and small) in which life/spirit was trying to warn me about going in the wrong direction or at least trying to redirect my path. I feel so much more comforted by the world when I know that I am divinely protected by my loving guides.

Grounding is very important for many reasons. One of the most important reasons for being grounded is so that you are fully aware, present and making the most of this life experience. Life is a gift; it is important to "be here" to enjoy ever single moment of it.

If we are ungrounded some of our experiences tend to be "out there" and it is hard for us to relate or have people relate to us. While being "out there" is enticing and wonderful we do have these precious, few moments here on Earth and we benefit by making the most of this life experience, in these bodies, here on Earth.

The following is an grounding exercise taken from His Words, channeled by Rhonda O'Brien.

Breath is a very easy tool to use to get you into a relaxed state. If you imagine that the breath that you inhale and exhale travels through your body and reaches every particle of your body you are already there. So what I suggest is that you take a deep inhale; make it last as long as you comfortably can.
As you inhale imagine a single molecule of that breath, it can be a bright light, a speck or any sort of shape and form that you can easily and effortlessly imagine, going from your lips and following your trachea and going through your shoulders, down your upper arms and down your lower arms and out through your fingertips. You should then imagine following the same path as you exhale.

With the next inhale you are going to follow that molecule and make it to your neck, your shoulders, your upper chest, your heart, your lungs, your chest, your abdomen, all of your upper and lower intestines and then your reproductive organs.

The more visual you become the easier it is for you to breathe and to relax. You do not need to get too, too technical here. If you don’t know exactly where your ovaries are it is fine. The visualization part is what matters most here. Then you want to imagine that molecule traveling the same path as you exhale and release that breath.

Good job, now we are going to inhale and this time the molecule will rapidly meet your thighs and then travel all the way down to your tippy toes and then right back up. While you are doing this I want you to start thinking of the world, the universe outside of yourself and I want you to be aware of the fact that you are infinitely connected with the rest of the universe outside of yourself. This can just extend to your family and friends or it can expand to the outer universe as far as the eye can see and beyond.

So with your next inhale I am going to have you take that molecule of breath, allow it to flow through your body, down to your toes and then down to the Earth. Depending on how deep your breath is it can reach the topsoil or even as far down as the mantle of the Earth.

Now the challenge is in your next breath you are going to inhale so much oxygen that you can reach the very center of the Earth. So as you are exhaling you are preparing for the gigantic inhale that you are about to take. With one, single breath you are going to pull that single molecule through your trunk of your body, down your legs, out your toes and to the central part of the Earth. Once you are at central part of the Earth you are going to sense, feel or just know that you are connected to the very core of our Mother Earth and then with your exhale you are going to follow that same path through the mantle, crust and up your toes, through your legs and on up your spine through your midriff, your chest, your neck and out through your lips.

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

Excerpt taken from His Words, channeled by Rhonda O'Brien.

Breath is a very easy tool to use to get you into a relaxed state. If you imagine that the breath that you inhale and exhale travels through your body and reaches every particle of your body you are already there. So what I suggest is that you take a deep inhale; make it last as long as you comfortably can.
As you inhale imagine a single molecule of that breath, it can be a bright light, a speck or any sort of shape and form that you can easily and effortlessly imagine, going from your lips and following your trachea and going through your shoulders, down your upper arms and down your lower arms and out through your fingertips. You should then imagine following the same path as you exhale.

With the next inhale you are going to follow that molecule and make it to your neck, your shoulders, your upper chest, your heart, your lungs, your chest, your abdomen, all of your upper and lower intestines and then your reproductive organs.

The more visual you become the easier it is for you to breathe and to relax. You do not need to get too, too technical here. If you don’t know exactly where your ovaries are it is fine. The visualization part is what matters most here. Then you want to imagine that molecule traveling the same path as you exhale and release that breath.

Good job, now we are going to inhale and this time the molecule will rapidly meet your thighs and then travel all the way down to your tippy toes and then right back up. While you are doing this I want you to start thinking of the world, the universe outside of yourself and I want you to be aware of the fact that you are infinitely connected with the rest of the universe outside of yourself. This can just extend to your family and friends or it can expand to the outer universe as far as the eye can see and beyond.

So with your next inhale I am going to have you take that molecule of breath, allow it to flow through your body, down to your toes and then down to the Earth. Depending on how deep your breath is it can reach the topsoil or even as far down as the mantle of the Earth.

Now the challenge is in your next breath you are going to inhale so much oxygen that you can reach the very center of the Earth. So as you are exhaling you are preparing for the gigantic inhale that you are about to take. With one, single breath you are going to pull that single molecule through your trunk of your body, down your legs, out your toes and to the central part of the Earth. Once you are at central part of the Earth you are going to sense, feel or just know that you are connected to the very core of our Mother Earth and then with your exhale you are going to follow that same path through the mantle, crust and up your toes, through your legs and on up your spine through your midriff, your chest, your neck and out through your lips.

Good job. Now take a few more shallow breaths to catch your breath. We do not want to pass out. Okay now one more time and then that is all. What you are going to do is connect with the universe outside of yourself and you are going to do so in a manner that only draws in the positive energies that you encounter.

So I will briefly describe what it is that you are to do and then you will follow through with my instructions. So what you are going to do is let go of your breath and allow it to take its own rhythm, relax and enjoy where it can take you but now we are going to be aware of the energy and the life that this breath allows you. Imagine that seed of energy in the pit of your belly or somewhere around your center. Allow it to be a ball of light or some source of energy that feels light, free, refreshing and healing.

Imagine as you are breathing in that cool, refreshing light that that light grows and it grows and it grows as though it were a bubble or a flower or a leaf or whatever image works for you. Imagine that as you breath in and out it grows larger and larger and larger until it is flooding your whole body or being with that light. Now allow it to also grow because light attracts light and now your light is attracting all of the light and the love and the peace that is you and that surrounds you and so your entire being is encompassed by this light and due to its refractive and reflective nature that light becomes so huge that all that you are and all that surrounds you is this light. And it is you. And it is you.

Now sit back and enjoy this light. This is all of the love and the light and the joy and the peace that is you and now it also encompasses the world beyond. Now what you are going to do is draw your attention back into your body, so imagine that bright, large light that encompasses all concentrating itself into a ball about the size of your fist and as you inhale you will gradually bring that ball back and in and to your center. This can take several breaths so breathe in and follow the path through your palette, down your windpipes and on down to your center. This can take as little or as long as you feel necessary.

Now what we also need to do at this point is extinguish anything on the inside or on the outside that is not light so continue to breath in the light and ask that the light naturally follow the path to the spots or the places in your body that might need the light. Now there may not be the need for any light in any place in one’s body and so if that is the case then be grateful. As you exhale ask that the exhale bring anything that is not light to the outside of the body where it instantly becomes light in the presence of all of the light that is reflected and retracted by the light within.

So we are going to sit with this relaxation exercise for a few more minutes. (It really can last as little or as long as you would like). Typically I would wait until you are really feeling relaxed and quite removed from your worries and almost as if you are disengaged from the rambling of the mind. What you want is for the chatter to stop so the vibrations, the naturally occurring airwaves, can be received and heard by the vessel that is you.

Your hands are just like the wheels on a typewriter, they are just responding to the messages or the orders that tell them which letters to strike onto the paper that is yours. It is no more than being a transcriptionist. It is just like you are the receiver receiving the signals that are the air or radio waves.

On the count of ten we are to begin. You can begin to count slowly in your mind, when you get to three you are going to say, is “one is all and all is one,” and then with the pen or pencil in hand you will begin to write. If nothing comes to your mind then ask that the image or the sound or the mark come to you quite easily and without effort and that maybe you will or will not understand its meaning but you will appreciate all that there is.

Some of you may prefer to put your writing utensil in your other hand. This allows the thinking mind to rest as it gets over stimulated and it cannot control the mind, as it is more concerned about writing the letters or creating and its new challenges “at hand.” Whatever you do, whatever method you choose do it with relative ease. While it is tempting to expect great works of art to come through immediate effort it really is not practical to expect so much.

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