A Week in Ireland: To Love is To Visit

Day 2, Monday June 11

This was the first full day of the week long workshop which I'm very excited about! The opportunity to sit in the vortex created for our deep healing and the healing of this planet is so powerful that I recall feeling the energy the closer it got to boarding my flight from Los Angeles. All the energetic shifts in my body, my dreams, the issues that came up for me as a reminder that there are still some things to fully process and integrate in my life for the completion of one cycle in order to move on to the next have prepare me for what's to come this week. There are many levels and areas that we as individuals work on deep inside ourselves for the greater collective consciousness to generate more Love on this planet.

This morning, Derek did something interesting to illustrate how to maintain Love in our bodies. He prefaced us with a visual representation of Love and Fear by drawing on a sheet from a presentation pad propped on an easle. With a colored marker drew two rows of rings, one above and one below, each with six rings representing the events in our life. With the top row of rings he drew a wavelength going through each ring to create an overall representation of a slow frequency. Starting from the top left of the first left ring in long and drawn out waves lines went up and down and sometimes going through a ring, sometimes not, with extended periods of time at the bottom of the rings and not always evenly going through each of the subsequent rings, but always with uneven highs and lows. This first row he labeled "fear". Next, with the bottom set of rings he drew a wavelength through the row of rings creating an overall high-frequency wavelength that went through each of the rings equally with it's pattern of high points and low points. This second row he labeled "Love".

The illustration helped me to deeply understand and feel that it is okay to not feel "good" all the time. That when in Love and in Fear we tend to have different experiences to carry us through to the next level or phase in life, but both are equally important to experience in our human body to reach a state of clear consciousness for what this world is really about so that we may be in Love all the time, even when we experience darkness. Fear brings about unbalanced highs and lows, sometimes we may feel very high in love, often times we have experienced feelings that keep us very low in sorrow which tends to keep us operating at a low-frequency so that when we stay long enough and finally shoot up in happiness or love we often miss out significant experiences in life that could help us advance, rather than repeat similar events because we have missed out on valuable experiences that followed it by blocking out our emotions. Whereas in Love we visit all events and emotions but never stay too long in one place that makes us feel low, but we visit it to know what it feels like so that we may know Love from that perspective, that experience, that emotion. We also just visit Love and not attach ourselves too tightly to the idea of Love in order to blind ourselves from valuable lessons that can be learned if we open ourselves up to the opportunities that come with challenges. To Love is to Love all things because the Universe with all it's creations, diversity, "good" and "bad", "slow" and "fast" is all created by God. So to Love is to visit, and to fear is to dwell. That simple illlustration was so enlightening it just made complete sense.

I am so grateful to be in the presence of my teacher and my brothers and sisters on this fantastic journey in Ireland. The creative energy is just vibrating with such intensity that it makes me feel even more optimistic and ready to bring forth all the projects I have in my heart and all the ideas generating in my mind. I feel centered and focused, my intentions are clear, I effortlessly remain in a state of service everywhere I am needed.

I look forward to the next moment! It's like being on an amusement park ride that just keeps getting unexpectedly better and my wish that one day this beautiful escalation would never see an end.

A Week in Ireland: Going With the Flow

Day 1, Sunday June 10th

It was a 10 hour flight from LAX to Dublin. I counted down the minutes to landing when I could get up and walk! Like the average traveler, I'm not a fan of traveling all day long, but a break every 5 hours of flight is appreciated. Actually, I don't mind having to connect flights when traveling abroad just so I can have a bit of exercise! (But long lay-overs aren't my cup of tea either, so please don't confuse this as a wish for longer travel days! Ooh no, definitely not.) Upon arrival Ireland was absolutely refreshing! Clean, clean air, open roads and welcoming taxi drivers. I immediately felt at home here.

I am flying to my first week-long More Truth Will Set You Free workshop in Ireland with Derek O'Neill. This is the most pure and powerful work that people can participate in that I know of. It facilitates our healing and evolutionary process in ways that are multidimensional and all encompassing. During these workshops the ascended masters and archangels work through a powerful vortex that Derek opens for us to help us clear all physical, mental, emotional and spiritual blocks that may be preventing us from taking the next step in our elevation back to Source. It's a more intense version of the MTWSYF weekend workshops in the States, because it allows for more back-to-back and in-depth days. Though the Truth is I am always with God, to participate in a Loving community guided by an avatar is a profound journey on the heart-to-heart level.

This is my second occasion flying to Europe solo (M didn't receive his international travel authorization in time for the workshop; ah well, things happen for a reason); though I am meeting people at the destination this adventure some how feels more significant, almost as if I were traveling Europe alone...I suppose I am, this trip will take me deeper into my journey from my self back to my Self.

There's something liberating about traveling such a distance away from home and greatly self-sufficient without the comfort my husband as my designated European guide. Unfamiliar with the land, checking all expectations at the door, and eager to meet new faces, I arrive giving way to the only reasonable option: surrendering to my right brain and going with the flow of life. I checked into the Clarion Hotel in Liffey Valley after splitting a cab with two friends who happened to be on my direct flight and proposed to share a taxi as we spotted each other at the luggage carousel. Perfect!

With nothing more than a welcome letter from the hotel, a list of participants and their respective room numbers, and just over £50.00 in my wallet, I had no idea if I needed to prepare for a welcome meeting, where the nearest bank was, or what time and where the first workshop began the following day. As you can see, I'm a very well organized person. "I'm just going to trust whatever needs to happen, wherever I need to be, I will be guided there." After all, that's what this entire trip is about - being in tuned, listening to my inner guidance and going with the flow. After struggling with deciding between roaming the hotel, ordering room service or exploring Liffey Valley I soon found myself tucked under the Egyptian cotton sheets of my bed and signed off for a nap. So off I flowed into the astral, dream or no dream I was determined to get rest.

After what felt like hours of sleep, to my surprise just a couple of hours later my sister-in-law wakes me with a joyful hello and leans down to give me a big warm hug. It turns out she decided to room with me since my husband couldn't make it on this trip. I guess Steph decided for herself to get out of her room assignment. Just moments after arriving it's apparent that we're all dealing with certain aspects of our identity as the process begins to unravel.

Derek pairs us for two reasons: 1) it's cheaper; 2) more importantly, because there is something of value when two people are hand-picked to room together for it will enhance our experience in ways we don't expect (having similar issues, wisdom to give/receive, balancing karma).

So Stephanie decided to stay in her comfort zone and share a room with me, which was fine by me! It was nice to have a familiar person around in an unfamiliar place, though in the back of my mind I realized it will slightly alter our experiences...in the end this will be a great opportunity to spend time with family. It shifted things a bit, but there are always two choices in life so which ever path we decide there will always be a specific reaction to experience.