Q&A: What's Wrong With Our Leaders?

This week’s Q&A is an expansion of some insights I shared on my Facebook page about leadership and specifically, the death of Hugo Chavez who was a polarizing figure, to say the least. We look at people like Mr. Chavez, the pope, presidents, Queen Elizabeth and wonder what is wrong with them. Why can’t they be more honest, open, incorruptible, supportive, and doing the ‘right’ thing? What is it about power that makes it such a corrupting influence? And why do all leaders seem to fall into the same trap?

Then I started thinking about the concept of leadership and people in power, whether it is in politics, government, social, work or religious environments, and how they are often dishonest, corrupt, self-serving and dictatorial. What is the connection between power and the negative results we experience from its use and abuse? I found an answer in how we define the word ‘lead’, which actually means ‘to guide’ and comes from a 9th century word which meant ‘travel’. So a leader started out as a travel guide. Interesting. How many of today’s leaders would you trust as your travel guide?

In the simplest terms, a leader is someone who guides or shows us the way. As a travel guide, a leader would be our assistant, which implies that we’re on the same path, heading in the same direction, sharing a similar philosophy and they’re helping us get somewhere we want to go, to arrive at our destination. What a novel concept. How many of today’s leaders actually do that, without inserting their personal or private power agendas into the process? Now all leaders are not bad but something happens when a well-meaning person steps into a powerful position, and we give them our power. Their leader-ship shifts into ruler-ship. And when that happens they move from being a travel guide into becoming someone who tells us what to do, sets self serving policies, engages in backroom deals and instead of leading (in the true sense of the world), expects us to blindly follow their agenda. Our leader has now become our ruler.

How does this shift happen? When we think that a leader can do for us what we think we cannot do for ourselves. In the context of 3D energy, there is a power shift, where we give our power away to someone who tells us that they will use our power to help us become more powerful. When we think about it that way, it doesn’t make sense. But we do it all of the time. And we’re seeing the results in every area of the world today, from corporations to governments to churches.
When we follow a guide, we’re traveling together and they are serving our needs. We expect our travel guide to help us with our travel plans and ensure that we have the best experience. Can you imagine hiring a travel guide who plans the vacation they want to take, expects you to go along and pay for it, carry all of their baggage, and sit in coach while they travel first class? That travel guide wouldn’t have much business but this is how our leaders operate.

The resignation of the pope, hospitalization of Queen Elizabeth, the death of Hugo Chavez, resignation of Cuba’s president, the sequester of the US government are all signs of the demise of the 3D concept of leadership — rulership by a few that is made possible by our desire to be taken care of through the surrender of our power. As they step aside or are pushed aside because....continue reading here

Energy Forecast | Emmanuel Dagher

ENERGY FORECAST

These monthly updates are created with the intention of providing clarity to what's going on energetically on the planet as a whole. As things continue to shift quickly, may these energy forecasts provide you with clarity & comfort.

Awakening the Lotus Heart

March 2013

Hi beautiful friend,

It's a deep honor for me to connect with you again. The month of February has been relatively quiet, however with all the celestial happenings things have started to pick up again as we move into March.

The Lotus

The prominent theme emerging right now in our personal lives, and ultimately in the collective, is the continued awakening of the lotus heart. To understand what the lotus heart is, it's important to look at what the lotus itself actually represents.

The Lotus flower has been quite a significant part of many cultures from ancient times until present day. The lotus flower represents divine purity, enlightenment, abundance and rebirth. If we look at where the lotus actually thrives the most, it is in the muddiest of waters where it rises and blossoms into its full glory. This is a powerful metaphor that reminds us of the lotus within ourselves. It reminds us that on a soul level, we knew, prior to entering this earthly matrix, that even though we would move through the muddy waters of life, we too would blossom into our full glory. We knew that every experience we went through would move us closer to connecting with and embodying the truest, most divine part of ourselves.

So what is the lotus heart actually? It's the higher heart where divine love, bliss and freedom reside. These energies are who we are at our core. When the lotus within fully blossoms, there is no longer a need to dwell on or in our muddy past, because we know it all brought us to where we are today. We are in a time and space now where we can allow the lotus within to melt away the armor we've carried all these lifetimes. We can invite it to guide us towards a more blissful, comfortable and gentle journey.

Self Love - The Ultimate Priority

The first step to awakening the lotus heart is to love ourselves completely in all ways. For thousands of years, most societies have taught us to put everyone and everything ahead of us. Then, if we have any love left over at the end, we can give it to ourselves. For the most part, if we did not abide by this invisible rule of thumb, we were considered to be selfish. And because being selfish in our society is so looked down upon, it's natural that we do everything we can to avoid being looked at in this way. In truth, what this mindset does is to separate us from experiencing our truest most fulfilled selves.

We are here to love ourselves first and foremost, and we're not talking about egotistical/narcissistic love. We are talking about the kind of love that aligns us with the knowing that by loving ourselves we open up to becoming One with everything. This kind of love reminds us that we are actually the Universe expanding into more of itself. Because our minds have not been exposed to this way of thinking, it can be a little overwhelming to accept that we are actually the Universe itself. So, let's be gentle with ourselves as the mind digests and anchors this wisdom at its own pace.

Galactic Love

By setting the intention to have a daily practice of self love, we start to replenish our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies to such a degree that we no longer look outside of ourselves to feel complete, happy and whole. It is from this space of overflowing love that we can then be of service to, support and elevate the environment around us. Then, self love no longer appears as a selfish act, but rather it appears as a selfless act that honors and reveres the Universe within ourselves, in others and in all of life across time and space. Self love then leads us into Galactic love where we transcend all illusions of separation.

Letting Go of the Story

When the energies start to pick up as they are now, it can bring up to the surface deeply buried emotions that may feel uncomfortable. ....continue reading here

The energies of March 2013 | Jennifer Hoffman

Any month that starts out with the Catholic Pope’s retirement, hospitalization of the Queen of England, and the US government in sequester promises to be interesting. That has happened in the first three days of March and it’s going to be a long month.  In January we adapted to the post-2012 energies, tired and a little disillusioned and disappointed. In February we discovered all of the blocks that have limited us, including our soul wounds, karmic cycles, partners, beliefs and distractions. It was a tough month as we processed one thing after another. And now we have March and it will definitely be a mixed bag of madness and mayhem with a lot of truth, insights and validation. We also have the year’s most powerful date in March, the 22nd, which heralds the end of 3D (as in the energy supporting 3D will be over). We’ll be celebrating that at the EVOLVE Now Summit event in Hot Springs, March 22 to 24, 2013.  I hope you can be there too! Learn more about it here.

For a month now I have been writing that the March 22 Equinox is the end of 3D, which means that it’s the end of 3D polarity and separation. We will still be in the third dimension, but with easier access to multiple dimensions and portals. The veils are gone, now we can see and be it all, with no restrictions other than those we impose on ourselves. The pope and the  Queen of England represent the masculine and feminine polarity of 3D, respectively. And prior to being hospitalized, it was reported that QE2 is being audited by the British government, who are thinking of removing her from the national budget. Considering that the British empire is an extension of the Roman Empire (Londinium, now London, was a major Roman capital), and the Queen owns 1/6 of the world’s land (yes, it’s true) while the pope owns a little less (between the two they own nearly half of the land in the world),  the implications are enormous. And popes don’t resign; the last one happened over 600 years ago. There are no accidents, especially not now.

In the 2013 Predictions, which you can read here , I wrote that 2013 was the year of Divine Power and Truth. The door to truth will begin to open this month and it is probably not going to be very pretty. Many people will be angry, scared, confused and bewildered when they learn of how shaky the foundations on which they have based their own truths are. 3D will not unfold quietly, like a lotus flower closing, it is collapsing on itself, under the weight of the greed, power, domination and control that have sustained it for eons.  There is no more energy to empower this paradigm so it’s going away. As it falls, we must be ready with our new paradigms of self empowerment, intentions for a world built on a foundation of connection (and thus equality), love, peace and joy and our own alignment with this as our personal paradigm. This is a great month to start that because the 3D paradigm collapse is gaining momentum every day, please don’t get into the fear, as everything is always in divine order.

March is the month to integrate with our Divine Power but we have to tread very carefully here. The old models of power were built on the principles of ‘power over’ or ‘taking power from’ someone or something. The 3D power paradigm is a ‘power vampire’ that feeds off of the others’ power. Divine power is an ascended concept that arises from within, is empowered through our  Source connection, and is the expression of our God light. It cannot exist without our Source connection and is expanded within a balance of giving and receiving. We can’t take it away from someone else or have it taken away from us. If we don’t use it, it stays dormant until we are ready for it.

But we can’t trade one despot for another. Divine power doesn’t take care of us, it sustains us. It doesn’t feed us in exchange for the promise of our power, it nourishes us when we feed ourselves through our own self empowerment. It will bless us with unconditional love but it won’t stop us from hurting ourselves, if that is what we choose to do. Divine Power isn’t going to rush in and take care of the ‘bad’ guys, but it will support our intention for joy, abundance, love and peace in the world, all of which will further assist in the collapse of the 3D paradigm.   

In March we will get a big dose of truth, which may be bitter medicine at times, both personally and globally, and we will have opportunities to try out our Divine Power. ...continue reading here




 

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