co-creating

"as powerful as you are alone, you are infinitely more powerful as a group.  when you co-create, you can change the world."

millie shows me a scene similar to the one on the beach, only this time there is a line of people walking hand-in-hand, along parallel paths, and each step brings them to the edge of creation -- the boundary between this moment and infinity -- each step is creation itself.  they are co-creating their world.

"this is very powerful.  when you walk together in love, intending to manifest together, incredible things happen."

I've seen 'the secret' and 'what the bleep,' and I have been thinking about the law of attraction as a sort of abstract and future-oriented idea.  by that I mean I believe I am creating my world, but it has always seemed to me that I was creating my future.  millie says we are creating our *now.*


"find your group, your community, your tribe.  walk together in love, intending healing for yourselves and for the planet.  create beauty and wonder and magic everywhere you look.  be in bliss.  be in ease.  be in love."

thank you, millie.

believe in yourself

"you can create for yourself anything you need.  you are capable of climbing to unimaginable heights and pulling the answers to your needs from thin air.  the only thing missing is your belief in yourself.  anything is possible!  there are NO LIMITS.


self-doubt is heavy, limiting, stifling -- it is like a cage and you are trapped inside.  self-doubt keeps you prisoner.  it keeps you from flying, it keeps you from being the truly magical person you are.  self-doubt is a very heavy, dark energy.  it is crushing you, keeping you down.


the thing about self-doubt is *you* are the key to getting out of your cage.  you can unlock it and walk free at any time.  the only thing keeping you in the cage is you.  in fact, the cage doesn't really exist.  you made it up.  but its effect on you is very real.  don't mistake the real-ness of the effects of self-doubt as proof of the reality for the doubt itself.  just because the non-existent cage keeps you from flying, from doing anything and everything you have ever dreamed -- just because the cage *acts* like a cage -- doesn't make it real.  it is not real.  it is imaginary.


give up your imaginary prison of self-doubt.  walk away.  fly away.  be free to be who you really are."

I am tracking you, mil, but *how* exactly do we unlock our cages?  if it were easy, I'm guessing everyone would have done it already.


"as with most things that are created in your mind, this requires a shift in perspective.  you must slide your mind slightly to the side and look at this with new eyes."

that is the literal translation of what she sent me.  but I need more help, so I asked her

how do we shift our perspective?


"go to the fountain inside of you that is your mind's eye, your godhead, the source of your magic.  ask your inner oracle what is possible.  everything is possible.  your inner oracle knows.  and you must believe."

and that will help us shift our perspective?


"you cannot meet your true essence and not be changed.  the act of journeying inward and seeing the magic and beauty that is you will shift you."

I did as millie suggested.  I have no idea what effect it had on my level of self-doubt, but I can say it was amazing and I do feel different, lighter somehow.

thank you, millie.

"you are welcome."

did we get it all?

"ride the wave."

she sends me an amazing, peaceful vision of floating on the crest of a blue wave.  when I ask her what the wave is, she says

"that is your flow.  relax.  enjoy."

the wave carries me gently along and sets me down on a beautiful beach.

"you are outside of the cages of your own making.  you are on the shore of endless possibility.  move forward and create your world."

as I step forward onto the beach, the hazy, swirly light in front of me becomes solid ground, each step solidifies another part of the ground.  I walk forward and realize that I am *creating* this as I go.  I visualize things and they appear.  it is effortless and instant.  it feels like a daydream or a meditation.  I am always walking at the very edge of what's real (behind me, underneath me, beside me) and what is yet-to-be.  I really enjoyed this daydream, so I walked along creating things for a while, and then I wondered

what is this a metaphor for?


"this is your life.  this is how it works.  you have unlimited creative potential, and you *create* your life.  it isn't a metaphor.  this is it."

holy shit.

she hops off my lap.  we are done.  I have got it.

attachment

"your attachment to certain things, certain pathways, certain outcomes, causes pain.  it impedes your flow."

millie shows me people floating in a river.  some are floating along with the current, but most have their hands stuck to something on the bank -- a house, a car, another person, or something more abstract.  as the current pulls against them, their arms stretch out like a cartoon.  it looks funny, but it isn't.  it is painful to be pulled that way.  eventually the substance (stubbornness?) that sticks them to the things on the bank will fail, but it won't part gently, it will rip, leaving chunks of them behind with the thing they were hanging on to.

"the universe will give you what you need, but not necessarily what you THINK you need.  if you learn to let go, to go with the flow, life becomes easier, more joyful, less painful.  life *is* flow.


let go.  trust that you will float.  let go of the need for control.  trust that you will have what you need.  let go of the attachment to specific things, ways to accomplish things, outcomes.  trust.  it is better to let go voluntarily than to find out the hard way just how strong this current is."

what about planning for the future?  isn't that important?

"as long as your future plans are fluid, able to adapt to and change with any change in the flow, future planning is a good thing.  it is only when the construction of those plans and dreams becomes rigid and inflexible that they pose a danger."

any advice for us on that?

"hold everything loosely.  your possessions, your loved ones, your dreams.  hold them as if they were baby birds that could be crushed with too much pressure.  hold them as though you are ready to let them go."

thank you, millie.

love yourself

I don't know about you, but my response to millie's messages has been two-fold.  first, wow, what an amazing being she is, with such valuable information to share and how true it feels when I hear it.  and second, wow, what a horrible person I am, full of failings and shortcomings that she highlights almost daily.

"push your envelope.  reach for more, be willing to examine your deepest, darkest places and shine your light into them.  but the music that carries my lyrics, the ever-present meta-message to my communications, is LOVE YOURSELF.


love is the answer.  love is the key.  love love love love love love love love  love love love love love love love love  love love love love love love love love  love love love love love love love love  love love love love love love love love  love love love love love love love love  love love love love love love love love  love love love love love love love love  love love love love love love love love  love love love love love love love love  love love love love love love love love .


in order to do this work, in order to fully express who you are, you must be kind and gentle and respectful and reverent with you.  you must love yourself so that you can show others how to love."

I can tell you that millie delivers her messages with love, in love, with no trace of judgment or hint of impatience.  she embodies love.

thank you millie, we love you.

conflict

"conflict is a habit.  in many cases you can avoid it by deconstructing your own position.  chances are good that your position contains a variety of judgments.  'they should do this.'  'they shouldn't have done that.'  'if they had/hadn't [fill in the blank] then this wouldn't have happened.'


the problem with conflict is it blinds you to the connection, the love, the common purpose.


conflict is harder to avoid when you are reacting in the moment, but it is possible.  take time, look inside yourself.  how much of the conflict is yours alone?  if you did not carry that conflict forward, if you did not provide it with a safe and comfortable place to rest, would it go away?


sometimes the answer is no.  sometimes the safe and comfortable place lies with the other person.  but you can let go of your part.  you can give it  less of a foothold.  you can release your negative feelings and absolve yourself of any responsibility for maintaining the conflict.


what would happen in the world if you stopped responding when someone hands you a conflict?  if you refused to play your part?"

millie sent me this message as I was in the midst of dealing with my own unpleasant feelings about what someone did not do that I considered to be their responsibility, in fact I pay them to do it.  I am not proud to report that my anger over the situation was completely my responsibility.  true, they were supposed to do it.  true, they didn't.  but I exaggerated the negative effect of their failure to do it, in order to fuel my anger, to provide my feelings of conflict a 'safe, comfortable' place to sit.  I am right about the facts, but my choices around that (being angry and sending negative energy to others) can't be construed as 'right.'

"right does not matter.  humans are so caught up in who is 'right.'  right is relative to the situation, not an abstract or absolute truth."

so our legal system has it all wrong, huh?


"there is no absolute 'right' that can be applied from outside a particular situation or interaction between people.  the 'right' for that situation or interaction is dependent on the people involved.  on the energy involved.


if someone agreed to do something and they are not doing it, why aren't they doing it?  is it possible for them to do it?  do they want to do it?  if they are abandoning a promise or agreement, there is always a reason.  your judgment of the 'rightness' of their reason is what causes the conflict.  or your disregard of the possibility that they may have a reason at all.


every interaction is a gift.  every interaction is a relationship.  rather than looking for ways to make another wrong, look for *your* gift in the situation.  how will this help you on your soul path?  what is your lesson?"

thank you, millie.

body & soul

"aspiring to true and authentic life does not mean that you leave your body behind in pursuit of the spirit.  the body is of the earth and connected to the physical.  honor the body, including the emotions, reactions and physical needs that come with having a body.  


many humans right now are focusing exclusively on the spirit, to the exclusion of their physical selves and their health and wellbeing.  as spirit in body, you will reach the highest harmony with yourself if you honor the physical as well as the spiritual.  balance between the two can be achieved by focusing your attention on the balance point.  


you will be spirit-only again.  there is no hurry.  you can accomplish things in-body that cannot be done as spirit-only.  savor this experience.  treasure it.  enjoy the love, the joy and the giddiness as you honor the anger, the frustration and the sadness.  these in-body experiences serve you.  you need them.


connect with the earth through your physical form.  honor the physical all around you.  invite spirit to join you here, in your body, on the earth.  embrace the duality that is your unique form at this time in this place.  enjoy."

thank you, millie.

your authentic self

hi mil, what's the topic for today?

"mindfullness.  awareness.  living your authentic life as your authentic self."

millie shows me a parade of human figures walking single-file, holding balloons that float above their heads.  the balloons are also human-shaped.  the walking figures seem heavy, empty, robotic.  the balloons are lighter than air, with painted smiles, but also seem empty.

"you are afraid to fully inhabit your body, your life.  many of you are simply skimming the surface of your life, afraid of the puzzle that is you, that you have come here to solve."

I have a strong sense that, while we normally trudge slowly up the steep steep slope of self-enlightenment, millie is here to build us a stairway.


"an escalator, if you let me."  (said with no trace of ego)

"you resist fully inhabiting yourself for the same reason you don't clean out the garage, or the basement, or the attic.  it looks like hard work.  it's a little dark and scary.  you might find something that upsets you.  you don't know how to start.  you aren't sure what to do with all that stuff.


it will be easier than you think.  when you hold your soul 'stuff' up to the light, it transforms.  you don't need to decide whether to keep it, toss it, give it away -- it's yours.  you don't need to re-box it and re-store it, it has changed into something much lighter, something that helps you rather than weighing you down.  it becomes an asset.  a treasure.


the best thing you can do for yourself is look at your 'stuff.'  make room for you inside your life. transform the dark corners into livable space.  climb into your body and engage with life.  move through your life with purpose and intention.  really feel what it's like to be you.  you are beautiful and wonderful and cool.  treat yourself, and every other being on the planet, with reverence and love."

yowza, millie.  if you're not careful, people are going to start making little gold figurines of you and praying to them!