Over the last twenty years of working with people, most people believe that some outside force will jump into save them — world governments, our government, will come up with a program; doctors, lawyers, politicians, and other experts will solve our problems and give us a “pill that cures what ails us;” a savior (which one depends on your religion) will come and save the devoted. So, most people wait for someone else to save them from their pain.

I have a news flash for you all — you are the one you are waiting for! You came here at this time in human evolution expressly for the purpose of delivering the solution for you, your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, your world. NOW is the time for you to start focusing on what you want to create.

Below I’m sharing Tom Kenyon’s information on the Chaotic Node we have already entered. This message was delivered in October, 2009, and world events are shaping up to confirm that we are in the “very ugly” moment that occurs just before an imminent birth. I urge you to watch this video, to compare the message to what you observe is happening in the world. But, more importantly, know that the opportunity to create a better world is here and will be created and established by what you choose to focus on.

Stay tuned for Part Two tomorrow. Then, this weekend, I will post the video that suggests a simple process to use that will empower the best solution for you and yours. I will be offering the nuts and bolts I’ve been using to implement this work on http://thesuccessbreakthrough.com.

Found Tom’s teachings on YouTube and will be sharing them for the next few posts.

If you want personal help in shifting your perspective and creating your vision for yourself and your family, more teachings can be found at http://www.thesuccessbreakthrough.com.

One of the things that I was led to do in around February, through guidance shared with me by two separate friends, was to locate a Feng Shui practitioner with a beneficial lineage and work with him/her. We have spent considerable time, energy, and financial resources doing so. (We have worked with her for several months now.) I feel that clearing the house of the unwanted, sending those items to those who could be blessed, getting clear about what we want and how we want to live, and paying attention to our landscaping have been very helpful. In some ways, we cleared various stuck thought patterns and emotions, because we had such energy invested in what was keeping us stuck. The Feng Shui is just a metaphor for that clearing. We can manifest more now because we have an emptier plate.

Over the course of the last several months we were given a laundry list of improvements to make over the next several years to our home and landscaping, with immediate targets with very specific timing attached to them. It’s gotten to the point that our carpenter is in conflict about doing the jobs because he is unwilling to schedule his work consistent with the prescribed times, since some of them are at the crack of dawn or very late at night or on the weekend. When I communicated this information to my consultant, asking for dates and times that were reasonable for a working person’s schedule, she responded that our karma was blocking us from having the resources to pay to have the jobs done when we wanted them done, as opposed to when our carpenter wants to work.

So, I talked to a very dear friend who is a successful business woman, writer, and professor who has lived in China. One of the things she shared with me is that the timing issues are curious to her. She said that the Chinese people do not think of time the same way we do, that “asking a Chinese person about yesterday is very difficult for him. He only focuses on the now.” Once I processed the details of the situation, I wrote our Feng Shui consultant. Since such clarity is quite valuable, I thought I’d share parts of what I wrote with you. This sharing perfectly illustrates that you make a choice; when choice points come up, continue to make decisions consistent with the choice; and stick with the shifted pattern until it holds. This is how I have learned to create a new reality for me, for my family.

Read your email. The first thing that jumps out at me is that my understanding is that, using Feng Shui principles, moving our front door is key to correcting the energy so that we can create abundant resources and the funky energy doesn’t effect people who come here. Maybe I got that wrong. I thought we also had mentioned something along the lines that if the bright hall isn’t established, the door moved, etc., that the effectiveness of whatever we are doing inside is limited. I also know that we have spent a tremendous amount of money, at a time when it took a lot of commitment to allocate funds in that way, on cures to move furniture, paint the deck, do the landscaping, put fountains where they belong, etc.

However, I see this Universe as choice driven. Circumstances are only designed to give us contrast. We learn what we want from having what we don’t want. When we finally decide to move to what we do want, are consistent in our choices, we continue to move toward actualizing that decision. Whether that contrast is “lessons from past lives” or circumstances in our daily life, I am not sure that matters. What I find important about this process is that we grow and evolve because of the tension created by being in the contrast of what we want versus what we don’t want. I teach this principle all the time, because it is the basis for the idea of karma — The Universal Law of Cause and Effect. I just don’t see reality as written in stone based on processes that most people don’t understand and can’t access. I just see it as encouraging people to choose what they want, if they want to be happy and abundant. The whole theme I’ve been dealing with over the last 20 years is whether I want to be happy or do a mission. I’ve been taught by various teachers that this was clearly a choice. When I finally got to the point that I was no longer willing to accept that teaching theme, that I was going to be happy on my mission or happy without the mission, then things started to shift dramatically. My willingness to do my mission now is wholly dependent on me being happy, having abundant resources, and know that I am heard. The Universe gets this and is manifesting this desire now. Will my vision change and grow? For sure it will, as my understanding and experience grows. But, I’m clear about what I want now. I have asked for this to manifest. It is happening because I made a clear choice and am making decisions consistent with that choice.

In conclusion I would like to emphasize that we are not victims; that our lives are created as a direct result of our choices and whether we are consistent in our talk, thoughts, and actions with those decisions. If we don’t like what we see, we can chose again. It’s just that simple — no book to read, no hours spent in meditation, no secret formulas. When you realize that you are at cause in your life, you can change things at a moment’s notice. You are no longer asleep and no longer at the effect of cultural, familial, or world opinion. This is the one teaching that will help you the most as we go through this transition on the Planet. I share it with you freely. Namaste!

The first time I remember experiencing this gift is when I lived in an apartment building owned by my Dad’s parents. I had a habit, from a very early age, of escaping the battle ground of my parent’s marriage and their exacting standards of living, by going downstairs to my Grandparent’s apartment. I remember so vividly the warm, enveloping hug of my Grandma, the smell of her talcum powder. The sights, smells, and sounds in her kitchen were heavenly. Always something cooking; interesting people sitting around her table, waiting to be fed. I can hear the buzz of conversation and all the laughter to this day. To think, she did all this while working sixty or more hours a week in the Motorola factory. I am sitting here eating her egg and bacon special, which she made for me whenever I was hungry because it was my favorite thing to eat.

The memories are pungent. But, even more important to me is the fact that I knew she loved me unconditionally. In her eyes, I was perfect, just as I was. I didn’t have to do anything to merit her love; it was freely given. Too, she supported her children’s and grandchildren’s hopes and dreams, attending our recitals, celebrations, graduations, beaming with pride. This was quite an accomplishment, since she lived in the city, and she never owned a car to make the more than hour drive to where we lived. More telling than that is that she accepted where we were at on our journey — never expected us to be the best or the worst at anything we explored, being unattached to our results.

When Grandma died, I never thought I’d ever experience that kind of selfless love again. Little did I know that Great Spirit was going to gift me with another experience of allowance, acceptance, and unconditional love. In 1988, I met my current teacher, Moon Woman Miss Genni Pearlsong McCoury. I don’t know if she remembers this or not, but I met her at a spiritual expo in Nashville Tennessee, before her son’s car accident. She was still traveling around the country teaching in those days. I never knew at the time how very important a role she was going to play in my life or that over 20 years later she would remain the pivotal figure in my life. But, I thank Great Spirit every day for her presence in my life, because going to Aunt Genni nourishes my spirit and gives me motivation to keep going, even when I want to quit.

The remarkable thing is that Aunt Genni and I come from two different backgrounds — she was raised traditionally as a Native American Moon Woman, and I was city bred. I saw why she lived her spirituality when I started working with her family when I was electrocuted, fighting for my life and sanity. The specialists had said that they felt the electrocution had caused multiple personality disorder — thousands of little slivers instead of one whole person. Auntie checked in with the Grandmothers; they didn’t understand such a diagnosis as being correct. But, because they loved me and felt I would worry about the diagnosis, they designed a ceremony of healing my psyche. The ladies of our family made thousands of little cradle boards, each one finely decorated. They floated them along the river to a point where they all met, symbolizing the healing of my mind. Unconditional love in action. Exquisite blessing!

Another one of the things I notice about these very healing relationships in my life is that Grandma and Aunt Genni want to know where I’m at on things. They ask what I call, “kind questions.” They listen very carefully to what I have to share. They don’t try to correct me by telling me that I am mistaken. They ask questions that may or may not lead me to a different point of view. Our conversations always end with an affirmation of my worth and an “I love you, Melody.”

So, in closing, I would like to acknowledge these great ladies and give you the gift of unconditional love. I’m sending this energy to you, all wrapped up in a shiny pink ribbon. You are God’s child; God’s creation. No one can be you; no one can fulfill your unique purpose for being but you. This makes you valuable by right of birth. If you never do anything ever again, you are lovable and valuable. I acknowledge you, my brothers and sisters on the journey. Who you are indeed does make a difference.

Blessings and love to you all,

Melody-Rose

I just finished reading a book that has really helped me come to terms with my feelings, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, by Robin Sharma. I thought I would share what I’ve learned with you, by quoting key points from Chapter 11 of this amazing book:

Time is our most important commodity.
Positive thinking, goal achievement, and self-mastery mean nothing without time.
We are mortal, and it is important to live full, productive days while advancing our purpose.
Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return.
Those who use time wisely from an early age are rewarded with rich, productive and satisfying lives.
Time mastery is life mastery.
What separates those who build exceptional live from the ‘also rans’ is the way they use time.
Time mastery allows you more time to do the things you love to do, the things that are truly meaningful to you.
Don’t let others steal your time; learn to say, “No.”
If you have no time, simplify your life.
Only 20% of your activities yield real, lasting results.
Spend time nourishing your relationships.

I learned one of the most useful systems of time management masterminding with church members in Nashville years ago. I still use and teach this process today. At the end of ever year, I review the year and note with deep gratitude my successes. Then, writing about my ideal day in my journal and perfecting my vision board for the next year lead me to making a Mastermind Agreement with Divine. I then break this agreement down into yearly goals, listing some actions I might want to take. At the end of every month, I sit down with my calendar, Mastermind Agreement, and yearly goals list and prayerfully ask the question, “What can I do this month to contribute to making this dream a reality?” I develop monthly goals from responding to this question. I do the same thing on Sunday with my weekly goals. Every morning I also ask, “What can I do today to contribute to achieving my weekly goals?” My partners are amused by my little “tick lists” (to do lists), but they insure that my activities are consistent with my goals. At the end of every day I review the day and note my successes in my gratitude journal. This helps me go to sleep on a positive note.

Every success coach I have ever studied with says that writing your goals down and planning your day is the key to managing your time. I say that it is the key to having a balanced life. So, please remember to add relaxing and enjoyable activities to your planning. Refreshing your spirit is key to doing productive work.

If you are done making excuses and want to make your dreams come true, I currently am coaching people to profit from energy deregulation. If you are interested in creating financial freedom and better choices for you and your family, I may have a coaching slot for you. Send me your phone number at melodyroseparker@gmail.com.

Today, I just want to share some thoughts I have about being a spiritual teacher and coach. Since my guidance is to strengthen “my inner observer,” I’ve had the opportunity to watch people interact with the information that comes through me, without emotions getting in my way. I thought I’d share my observations, as it might help someone out there choose between content and marketing/appearance/perception.

Even though I implicitly have followed my guidance to make the teachings I share accessible to as many people as possible, I have never hid the facts that I am a transchannel first and have received over 20 years of training from a Native American Moon Woman. Even though I rarely present myself in either context, I am fully capable of pulling in messages from the highest guides on the Spiritual Planes and have done for many, many years, and continue to do in my private spiritual practices, high ceremony. Just because I neither overtly nor covertly advertise these gifts doesn’t mean I don’t own them. Just because I rarely don my feathers and turquoise jewelry doesn’t mean I don’t have ceremonial garb. What it does mean is that I am very conscious that in order to broaden my outreach, I have to appeal to the most people. That means I spend a great deal of time just talking to people, listening to their dreams for themselves and their families, and translating what I know and the information that flows through me into something that people can hear.

Several weeks ago I had a great discussion with my friends on my regularly scheduled Friday night program, The Exchange on ACIM Gather (http://www.acimgather.org) on this very topic. We used the example of James Arthur Ray who marketed himself as a water pourer for Native American Sweat Lodges, using words like “Sacred” “Secret” “Ceremony” “Hidden” “Deep in the Jungles of South America.” His marketing piece on his website made it seem that he had both knowledge and standing in the Native American world as a ceremonial/lodge leader. This indeed was not the case, and several people died and were injured in Sedona, AZ as a result of Mr. Ray’s attempts to lead a ceremony he was unqualified to supervise.

How do I know this? First, in the Indigenous world no one markets their work. Someone’s knowledge base and abilities are confirmed by others and shared by word of mouth. For example, no one ever says, “I am a Medicine Woman.” Others might call someone a Medicine Woman, because she helped them in some way. It is in fact the community that gives credence to the notion that someone connects to Creator in a good way and is helpful. What a bona fide Native American teacher/ceremonial leader will do is share with you who their Elders are and what lineage supports them. That is the acceptable credential in that world.

Second, I have written Mr. Ray several emails and contacted his supporters on Facebook asking them for information about Mr. Ray’s lineage and Elders so that my Elders can connect with his and help correct Mr. Ray’s behavior. No one has ever responded, and it is my contention that they don’t respond because they can’t respond. It is my belief, unless Mr. Ray and/or his supporters give appropriate information to me, that Mr. Ray does not have a lineage in the Indigenous world and that no Elders take responsibility for his behavior. He, therefore, is not in fact a water pourer, has never gone through extensive training and supervision as a water pourer, and had no business taking anyone, let alone dozens of people, through a sweat lodge ceremony.

The sad thing to me is that somewhere along the line Mr. Ray seems to have started to believe his own marketing hype. I really feel that he saw himself as a ceremonial leader, even though he patently was not. Also, if his many emails are any sign of where he is at, he does not take personal responsibility for what happened in the Sweat Lodge in Sedona. Taking responsibility is key to good Medicine work. In the Indigenous world until Mr. Ray makes right, he will never have any good connections, either in the Spirit World or with the People.

So, please be aware, when you are looking for a teacher, that in many spiritual disciplines there are mentors and lineages. The teacher is only as good as the lineage that stands for him or her. So, do due diligence and find out what is standard practice for a teacher in the discipline you are thinking of studying, and only study with someone who has a great lineage and the fruit from that tree.

The second part of my talk with you today is more personal. I have had the opportunity to share teachings on several fronts over the last six months and watch what people do with them. It’s been quite enlightening.

One of the first things I noticed is that who starts applying the teachings will often surprise you. I’ve been watching two young gentlemen who are around 23 years of age, for example. I’ve spent hundreds of hours on chat with the youngster who is heavily attracted to Indigenous teachings and wants to be a healer. Although he’s had some Ah Ha! moments over the course of the last year with me, he continues to walk into karmic lessons (lessons learned through suffering). This last set of lessons I’m watching him in has to do with how he chooses teachers. I’d like to share my observations of his walk with you.

On the one hand, I have been sharing foundational teachings and healing work with this young man all along. I have even put him in touch with my “Auntie” (my Native American teacher), as a first connection to my lineage. I drove over three hours to Alabama to attune him to Reiki, when his teacher of choice fell through. On the other hand, he went to a few sweat lodges with water pourers I know in Alabama and eventually decided to present his Medicine gifts to the couple and request to be taught by them. He even moved to their property and works full time on the property for a barely habitable, poorly-heated room and very little board. After being there since November, the couple has not responded in an appropriate, timely manner to his request for teachings. I doubt that they ever will.

Then, I watched the other young man. I met him because he was a friend of my roommate of 20 plus years, and they went into business together. By profession, this young man is a hairdresser, and he loves to help people. On its face, I would have never thought that this man would connect with my teachings. But, he has. He’s hungry for the teachings, applies what I’m sharing with him, accepts me as is, and shares the teachings and opportunities to work with me with his friends. He has made so much progress in the last few months that I can’t wait to see what he manifests next.

Another person I was observing is the only person I ever apprenticed in over 20 years. I really like this lady and connect strongly with her vision of helping animals. I know that she is new to the spiritual path, and often that means that the bells and whistles being marketed are attractive. But, I was totally flabbergasted when she emailed me to say that she was not going to participate in the teachings at this point. I know for a fact that she spent considerable money, that she did not have, to attend a weekly workshop on creating abundance. Since she told me that she is processing negative emotions and suffering while doing this, I know that she either isn’t applying good abundance teachings, or appropriate truth teachings aren’t being passed along. What is even more on point is that the process I offered to share with her, for free, has a huge track record of effectiveness in helping one manifest what delights, without processing negativity or suffering in any way.

Where I went in my thinking is that people are attached to how they receive the teachings. They want to be in control of how the teachings manifest for them. I knew this, as my Reiki Master told me this over 20 years ago when we discussed the attunement process. My Reiki Master did a traditional style attunement because people who researched Reiki usually had some idea of what that process was like. My contention was that the attunement was sealing an energy transfer that had already occurred, so it didn’t matter how one attuned a student but that one did enough for the student to believe something happened. Even though my Reiki Master agreed with me, he contended that appearing to do the attunement in the “right way” perhaps was a part of building that belief.

In the instances above, I have been guided to offer a life line to three people. Let’s say metaphorically that I offered a white life line. One of these folk didn’t care what color the life line was, so he took it and pulled himself up. One of the people said, “I want a red life line. If it isn’t red, it’s not Native. So, I don’t even see the white life line, even though it’s laying right in front of me.” Unfortunately, unless the Universe intervenes, this guy is in a vibrational morass that could be very challenging to overcome. In the case of the apprentice, she said, “I see the white life line. I’ve seen others pick it up. I’ve even picked it up every once in awhile and then put it down. But, pulling myself up with the white life line means I’m going to have to give up suffering and change some things in my life. I think I’ll try this other life line. They are in a healing center. The way they market their work sounds good. Their terminology sounds really spiritual. They have techniques.”

To round off this discussion, I would just like to say that my training as a healer tells me to be unattached to people’s process and results. I was trained to hold the space for miracles to occur but not to put my details on what someone else’s miracle would look like. As my Elders say, “Healing for some people is a miracle cure. Healing for some people will be happiness in spite of disease or disability. Healing for others might be a good death.” So, even though some part of me feels emotional as I watch people move in and out of the teachings, I work on being as detached as I can.

When it comes down to it, I can only give you one good piece of guidance on this topic. It’s not original to me. In fact, it’s something I picked up by studying Jesus’s words in The Bible. “Look at the fruit on the tree.” Do your research. Find out not only how a person acts in class but how they treat family members and business associates. If his/her fruit uniformly is tasty all of the time in every season, you might want to try it. If it’s not, there are other trees out there. Finally, if you do try the fruit of someone’s tree and see that it is seasonal or not to your taste, you can always find another tree. Ultimately, all paths go one place — they uncover our complete awareness that we are always connected to All That Is. That is God’s promise and our salvation.

Consistent with this theme, I am dedicating 2010 to making a success breakthrough myself and to coaching others to make their own success breakthroughs. I will be sharing extensive teachings to support this work on my website, http://www.thesuccessbreakthrough.com, and invite you to visit daily as I share cutting edge information and techniques that will support you making desired changes in your life. No barrier is too wide or too deep to breakthrough! So, come join us and turn your life around in 2010!

My specific targeted goal is to break through the barriers that being on disability has caused in my life and create unlimited financial resources so that I always have freedom to choose what is best for me and my ministry. The vehicle I am using to make this breakthrough profits from deregulation. If you want to join me and create financial choices in your life, phone me at 770 947 0988 and let me know that you read this post.

In conclusion, here is an awesome Youtube video that shares predictions for 2010 published in The Sedona Journal. Enjoy!

Whether we want to believe this or not, our lives are governed by natural law. We can either work with the law or have it work against us. As a people, since we have stepped away from family/community-based agriculture, we have stopped listening to the land, to the animals and plants around us. We no longer connect with the natural wisdom that would support our continued successful life within our community. We have stopped living in harmony with natural law. We no longer follow the natural cycles of the planet, and we have lost connection. Then, we wonder why our lives are not working; why the technological explanations for how things manifest don’t quite work for us, on a consistent basis.

I am dedicating 2010 to using and sharing teachings about how to live in accord with Mother Earth and all her children so that we can create a permanent path to living a successful, joyful life, in harmony with natural law, in community with all living things. I am committed to honoring all my relations — God/Source/Creator, the Mother Earth, the Sun, the Moon, the stars, the plants, the animals, the soil, the rocks, the crystals, the bacteria, the viruses, everyone I meet, the Holy Ancestors, spirit guides and teachers. When I live in this way, I have vibrational coherence and am not at the negative effect of any happenings of the day.

Does this mean that I am recommending that everyone go out and do Native American or Indigenous ceremony on a regular basis? Not unless you are led to do so, and if you are led this way and need to connect with a bona fide Lineage, please connect with me, because it is rather challenging to find a congruent Native American teacher.

What I am suggesting is that you connect today, right now, and that you make time to connect daily. First, connect with your Higher Power, with whatever you believe is greater than you, and communicate your gratitude for your life, in whatever state it’s in. If you don’t feel the connection, talk with your Higher Power anyway. There is great power in “faking it until you make it.” Second, connect with the Earth. For those who can do this, take your shoes off and walk around outside barefoot. Wiggle your toes in the grass; walk directly on the soil in your garden. Go up to a a tree and touch it with the awe and wonder of a child. Mentally state your intention to connect in deep gratitude for the shade the tree provides. Look at the plants and animals around you. Thank them for being there, for giving you the gift of their teachings. Look up at the sun; feel the warmth of its rays and thank it for its many gifts — light, day, food. Live a life of honoring, in deep gratitude for the many gifts you are given in every moment.

Then, make plans and decisions from that connected place. Our Elders teach us that we should consider the outcomes of our decisionmaking for seven generations. This is a good way to live, to think further than the dictates of the moment, to ensure good living for those who follow us. It is the way the Holy Ancestors lived in the Ancient World, and they had far greater abilities than those we aspire to in the modern world.

In 2010 I will be living this way and sharing how to live this way — connecting with the wisdom of the natural world in reverence and gratitude in order to create desired life breakthroughs. A small group of my brothers and sisters are joining me in this process, and I will be writing a book to document our journey together as well as share the breakthrough process. I am giving the basic teachings that are the foundation for this way of purposeful living on my blog, The Success Breakthrough. You are welcome to visit me there at any time, leave questions or comments.

In closing, I would like to share with you a video that I received this morning from Children of the Sun. They are using the film as their basis for this month’s Full Moon Ceremony on Wednesday, December 2. I am sharing it with you to show you in graphic detail what I value, why I am going to move me and my family to higher ground so that whatever occurs on December 21, 2012, we will be living a fulfilled, joyful, and prosperous life. I invite you to join us!

As a lover of Celtic music and dance, I have seen many Irish dancers and musicians over the years. When I saw Michael Flatley for the first time, I was totally blown away by his talent, energetic performance, and commitment to his art. So, today I would like to share the Youtube video of the Finale of Feet of Flames. Absolutely incredible! Enjoy!