Reconnecting to your Inner Resources is understanding and learning how to access your Inner Resources using the Power of your own Mind and letting go and releasing old incompatible programs to enhance the quality of your life.

Do YOU want to enhance the Quality of Life or continue to live the same way? This is a question that you can ask yourself and see what “Answer” you receive and then you have the CHOICE to “Accept” or :”Reject” the ANSWER and then take action accordingly. Whatever you do remember that you create your own REALITY so take full responsibility for everything that follows.

Love

Blossom Furtado

Grant me the Serenity to Accept the Things I cannot Change

The Courage to Change the Things I Can

And the Wisdom to Know the Difference

– Reinhold Niebuhr –

99% OF ALL FAILURES COME FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE A HABIT OF MAKING EXCUSES
George Washington Carver
Chemist who discovered 325 uses for the peanut

We all do this most of the time.

When an excuse crops up as to “why” you should not do something  – ask yourself the question “What difference will it make to ME if I give up this habit of making excuses”

Record the answers you receive from your Subconscious Mind and kick start a new HABIT – a habit of taking ACTION rather than making excuses.

Have a wonderful day

Blossom Furtado
28th May 2014

The other day a small child said to me … I don’t believe in God. I listened as he explained. And of course, what he was talking about is that he does not believe in a God who judges us, who gets angry if we don’t go to a special place of worship to pray, who punishes and rewards. This child believes in a lot of other things – he believes that people can be kind, people can be nasty and mean, people can love, people can get angry and hit out …

I asked him why he thinks that people do all these things that people do. He said it’s because they forget who they are. Who’s that? I asked. The same as everybody else, he said. “Are you really the same as your friend Nikoo?” I asked. “Not exactly”, he explained. “I am me. Nikoo is Nikoo. But we are also the same.” Then, as small children do, he got bored of me and my silly questions and ran away to play. Leaving of course, a very thoughtful adult behind

Here I have been saying to all of you – Your children are God. You are God. Why do I have to tell you that you are God? Why did it take me so many years to realise that I too am God? Why do we forget?

I read an explanation in a book that went something like this – if we remembered our true source, we would want to be good all the time i.e. like God. So we would be like automatons, robots programmed to be good, no free choice. I don’t buy that explanation. I know many people like me, who may want to be good (whatever that means!) but I am not good. The presence of God in me is very real, very clear. But I am not good. I choose often to be selfish, irritated, sad, picked on … I can go on, but you get the idea. Because I am not different from you, whether or not the presence of God in you is a breathing, living reality that you are aware of every day

So why do we forget? I think it’s because we choose to. Knowing I am God, I feel even more ashamed when I cannot or do not live up to my idea of God-likeness. It’s easier to pretend that I am not God. That God is some far away Being who watches over me and tut-tuts indulgently when I am not good – or gets really angry and punishes me. It’s much, much easier to live in denial. The alternative is an awesome sense of responsibility, not just for myself but for my entire world. Then I am responsible for my own forgiveness, for my own justice, for my own rewards, for my own happiness. How scary!

So, being who I am and doing what I do, I thought about applying some of the principles of psychology to this huge, big denial that I would so much prefer to live in. The denial that I did live in for so many years So I took a look at Elizabeth-Kübler Ross’s stages of recovery from loss. I am not the first psychologist to have done so, of course. Most therapists agree that the original cause of all suffering is because of the original loss of True Self – the eloquently described ‘fall from Grace’. I am however applying it specifically to my denial of that True Self.

From Denial I moved inevitably into Anger. Rage, Hurt, Guilt (the biggie). Why should I, who am God, be unable to order the world as I like? Why should I suffer? Why should I watch my loved ones suffer? So then logic tells me (the Conscious, logical mind who is oh-so-smart!) then you are NOT God. It’s so much easier to slip back into Denial. Once I managed to resist that urge, then the Bargaining began. For me, it wasn’t a question of pujas, or doing penance. Oh, no. Much, much more subtle.

Propitiating God, bargaining with God, takes many forms. I know people who do ‘social work’, who take care of animals, who rescue other people. Not because their hearts tell them to, but because it might please God, who will then spare them all that angst. My own addiction was to pervasive guilt which manifested as a form of socially acceptable martyrdom. Overworking. Refusal to slow down and take time to smell the roses. Not saying ‘No’ to my clients when they needed my time, forgetting how to play and have fun for myself.

Gradually, I moved into Acceptance. I am accepting who I am. I am God. But I am still bargaining. Like my small friend, I do not want to believe in a God who is judgemental and punishing. So when I judge and punish myself, I do not want to think that I am God. I want to pretend that God is perfect – but only the perfection that I have painted in my head. I do not want to see God in the man who throws a rock at a street dog. I do not want to see God in the woman who hits her child when he throws a tantrum in the mall. I do not want to see God in the child throwing the tantrum. I do not want to see God in the fanatic, in the rapist, in the terrorist. But whether I want to see God or not, God is in all of these.

I do not understand the ‘why’ of the experience of being something that my human judgement tells me is ‘not good’. The perfection of God is not something I can comprehend with my human understanding. That perfection, that goodness, that peace, passeth all understanding.

And therefore, at times, I still choose to forget that I am God, and these flaws of mine are part of God. I am good enough. I am God enough.

SUMEDHA BHISE
Cht and
Transpersonal Regression Therapist

In the short run, there are two types of people who live in darkness, Blossom:

Those who are desperate to emerge
Those who are desperate to stay

When you finally realize that part of the reason you chose this lifetime was to shine your light for the first type,
you’ll stop worrying about what the second type thinks of you

I got this from someone who inspires and motivates – and it applies to all of us in all the work that we do

Have a great weekend

Love Light and Gratitude
Blossom Furtado
24th May 2014

Each Player must accept
the Cards Life deals him or her.
But once they are in hand,
He or She alone must decide
How to Play the cards
In order to Win the Game

Voltaire

It is so true – I actively listen, seek support and guidance and use my head and heart with love gratitude and humility to create my own destiny through my Journey on Mother Earth

Blossom Furtado
22 May 2014

I AM NOT EXPECTING – NOT REJECTING – NEITHER WISHING – NOR HOPING – NOT GRASPING FOR – NOT PUSHING AWAY – NO PAIN – NO AMBIGUITY – NO DISTRESS – SIMPLY – IN GRATITUDE – WITH HUMILITY – WITH UNCONDITIONAL LOVE – RESIDING IN A QUIET – CALM – LOVING – PEACEFUL – CENTERED – BALANCED – HARMONIZED SPACE IN THE HERE AND NOW IN SYNC WITH MOTHER EARTH

Blossom Furtado
19th May 2014

I woke up this morning with a wee whisper in my ear – this is an era of change and transformation – how little you humans love yourself – what keeps you stuck in your own mundane stories – selfish – worried about your own future – what about Mother Earth which gives you Grounding and Balance – what about all the other creatures that live here – what about us?

Go Beyond the Beyond say the Beings from the Mineral Kingdom – expand yourself and make use of the opportunities that come your way – Anyone listening they ask in humility

I do I said – I listen – I expand – I create – I reach out and make a difference to myself first and then to Mother Earth and all Life Forms that dwell here in the Here and Now

We thank you they said with Love Humility Gratitude Peace and Light

Blossom Furtado
17th May 2014

 POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE

Our Deepest Fear I have realized, as I have worked with myself and a number of individuals is not that we are “inadequate”.  It is the fear that we are “powerful  beyond measure” as Marianne Williamson rightly says in her poem Our Deepest Fear.  It is our”Light” and not our darkness that frightens us and hence we turn it down so that we could make all others around us not feel insecure.

We are here not to turn down our lights – we are here on Planet Earth to turn on our lights and raise our “Light” to the highest frequency and thus empower others to do the same. 

2014 is the year of Empowerment – Cooperation and Teamwork  – let us together at HSI be loving, brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous, generous, cooperative, inspiring and unconditional and step beyond our normal limits to reach out and make a difference.

As Marianne Williamson says “And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same – as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others”
Lots of Love and Light
Blossom Furtado
30^th January 2014

OUR DEEPEST FEAR
Marianne Williamson 
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate
Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond measure
It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually who are we not to be?
You are a child of God
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people
won’t feel insecure around you
We are all meant to shine as children do
We were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone
And when we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others

MY REFLECTIONS ON “DUST IF YOU MUST” by Rose Milligan

When my daughter sent me this Poem by Rose Milligan, I was prompted to reflect to see if there was something around “dusting” that resided in me – Was I dusting all the time and missing the fun around?  I went back in time to reflect. I found that it was not about “dusting”.  It was about being in the “here and now” that ensured that things around me were neat and tidy.

I grew up as a child keeping everything neat and tidy around me, be it my room, my cupboard, my study table, my bed, my clothes and my environment.  This is my inherent nature.  I felt that this is the way things were supposed to be and if everyone kept it that way the world would be a cleaner, better wholesome place to live in with everything in its proper place.

I went back to one  specific incident – I remember that when I was young (maybe 9 years) I visited my grandmother’s (Nani’s) home in Mangalore.  This was a big home with an even bigger yard with a lot of trees.  There was a bathroom (only used for bathing) with a big old style oven where you could burn logs to heat water which was stored in a big barn (a big brass pot) for all the family members to use for a bath.  Since I was awake early that day, I was given the duty to sweep the leaves in the yard and collect it to burn in the oven to heat the water.

After I had swept the yard and collected the leaves, I noticed that the barn was black with soot in most places and was shining in very few places – I felt that the barn had to be shining in all places.  I got our maid to lift it off the oven and I scrubbed it with the ash (I used to see the maid using it for the dishes) and the barn was shining all over.  That day the water heated in a shining barn.

My grandfather was the first one to go in for a bath and when he came out he praised my grandmother for paying attention to the old barn.   My grandmother got to know from the maid that I had done the scrubbing of the barn and that day she said to me “thank you – you will use your skills to keep everything shining around you”  I considered it a blessing from her as she was a woman of few words.

To this date I ensure that everything around me is in a neat and tidy state with least effort and that includes my “Mind”.   With that in place I am able to do all the things that Rose Milligan states in her poem and much more whilst still keeping things around me neat and tidy and I know that everyone on Planet Earth has the ability to do this and much more if they only live in the “moment” completing things as they need to be rather than postponing it for a later moment.

Reading the poem from my new perspective, I have put Rose Milligan’s words in brackets and my perspective in italics.  I hope that all of us read, understand, reflect and learn from what our great Poets, Masters and Leaders have said and done before us and use that as a platform to grow and expand.

DUST IF YOU MUST
Rose Milligan

Dust if you must, but wouldn’t it be better to also ensure
To paint a picture or write a letter,
Bake a cake or plant a seed,
Ponder the difference between want and need?

Dust if you must, (but there’s not much time)and remember there is only now
With rivers to swim and mountains to climb,
Music to hear and books to read,
Friends to cherish and life to lead.

Dust if you must, (but) the world’s out there,
With sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair,
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain,
This day will not come around again.

Dust if you must, (but) and bear in mind,
Old age will come (and it’s not kind) as time goes by
And when you go – and go you must –
You, yourself, (will make more dust) will have left a Wholesome Earth

Thank you Rose Milligan for this great poem which prompted me to reflect and continue to live to make the world a wholesome place.

Love and Light

Blossom Furtado

5^th September 2013

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eoXp��r addiction to prejudiced, closed-minded, dogmatic beliefs, in order to open our awareness to this novel synthesis of understanding Truth.

By probing deeply into our own consciousness, we transcend the limitations of the human brain, and of the physical-material realm. The spiritual realm is real. Seamless blending of science and spirituality will occur.

His journey was profound and his recovery magical.  There is a lot more that we human beings need to understand.  We are more than just the body.  If we realize this, we could together take our “World” to another dimension – a new consciousness of unconditional love which is a blend of head and heart or as we put it – a synergistic balance and harmony of the “Soul, Mind and Body”.

Albert Einstein said:  “A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be”

Blossom Furtado