Anchor Yourself in Reality
On December 25, 1968, with my two toddlers, I landed on a remote airfield in the interior of Venezuela, on the outskirts of El Tigre.
Gulf Oil had just hired my husband, Tony, to work in the Mene Grande Oil Camp. ,In the weeks before he started this job, we sold our cars, and home, located in a Dallas, Texas suburb.
Movers packed our belongings and sent them down to the seaport in Maracaibo, Venezuela by boat. We didn’t see our household goods for six months because of a shipping strike.
We lived with nothing and no way to get anything. Think of the things you feel you might need: coffee pot, dishes, sheets, towels, chairs, tables, beds, sofas.
We borrowed from the neighbors.
I found myself living in a country where we lived in a community ringed by a high chain link fence near a remote village where I didn’t know the language. My spouse spoke Spanish but he was at work all day long.
After a short time, the reality of my situation sank in. The oil camp where I lived was fifty miles from a grocery store in one direction and fifty miles from headhunters in the other. Ciudad Bolivar sat eighty miles in the third direction on the south bank of the Orinoco River.
I lived a life where a uniformed guard aiming a machine gun at me was the rule of the day as I went about my “que haceres” to the bank, bakery, gas station. Wherever I went throughout the day, I took Jennette and Michele with me. The goal was to never get separated from them.
Lastly, there was no outside phone line.
What a place to be when so much was happening in the rest of the world. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. Arlo Guthrie sang “Alice’s Restaurant”. The My Lai Massacre was the scandal of the Vietnam War.
By the end of the first month, I found my anchor, my information line to reality. I read about current events and news every Tuesday evening when the previous Sunday’s New York Times was delivered to my door. As soon as the DC-3 landed about 4:30, we were all ready at our house. We loved greeting the paper delivery man as he dropped it off at our front door. Tony and I read the last Sunday’s paper from cover to cover.
I had never been to New York City and it didn’t even matter. The New York Times brought the world to me.
And, I’ve been reading the New York Times regularly since then. I read it in San Francisco, Mexico City, San Antonio, Dallas, Monterey, CA., and Washington, D.C.
Some places I got the paper daily. Others, it was weekly. Wherever I lived, I read every copy I got my hands on.
No matter how the current events of my life unfolded, after reading the New York Times, I had a calmer, more realistic perspective. The New York Times brought news with the calming reality of facts most of my adult life.
Even with all the drama of Biden versus Trump, stories in the New York Times are balanced, informative, real, and important.
To The New York times, I send a thank you for doing what you do so well.
To my readers, I sincerely hope and pray that you have found a way to stay anchored. Life is much easier that way. This anchor adds an extra layer of depth to my spiritual work. For me, this is essential.
I am simply unable to live my life from day-to-day without including planetary events. I have friends, close friends, who are able to shut everything around them out. I cannot. I live on the planet earth and cannot ignore the reality of current events.
Along with the Reiki and Reflexology, I’m a more balanced person. Current events are part of this circle of spiritual growth. Include the necessary elements for balance.
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Your Throat Chakra – What is your deepest truth?
Back in December, I did some research and wrote a story about Archangel Gabriel and the birth of Jesus.
The first thing I learned was that Archangel Gabriel is a patron of communicators. This includes radio, TV, computer communications, telephone, and even postal workers.
I learned from my research into the birth of Jesus that Archangel Gabriel actively participated in this event. My research revealed clearly that Gabriel used varied communication techniques with each person he encountered as he managed the fulfillment of this prophecy.
When Gabriel visited Elizabeth and Mary, for example, he spoke to each of them in a way which they could understand. Gabriel met each person where they were in life.
Gabriel then, in a few sentences, changed their lives.
Your throat chakra is where your truth manifests itself.
This is where you connect to wisdom.
Your ideas come from your first chakra.
When your ideas travel to your second chakra, you examine them from a practical standpoint – money for example.
At the third chakra, you examine your emotional attachment to your idea: You consider whether or not this idea will win or lose.
At your fourth chakra, you ask yourself if your heart is involved.
At the fifth chakra, your idea is developed to the point where sentences, paragraphs, whole messages organize themselves to become your truth.
Your truth sits at the center of your throat. It’s corresponding gland is the thyroid gland. I think it’s significant that the thyroid glands are all about energy. It takes a balanced throat chakra and a thyroid to deal with one’s truth.
Authenticity takes a lot of energy. Your throat chakra works to deliver your message in truth and integrity.
Because your throat chakra deals in truth, corresponding health issues are bound to surface. They include diseases of the throat, larynx, tonsils, and ears.
Your throat chakra’s effectiveness can be diminished by life events.
Injury, physical and emotional abuse, will harm your throat chakra.
Grief, anger, and fear will shut it down.
Dishonesty and gossip will compromise your throat chakra’s effectiveness.
When we don’t honor our truth, our integrity goes into default.
The throat chakra is focused on your message and its truth.
A life goal is to learn to mean what you say.
Your daily life can authenticate your communication. This can become difficult if you are in a job or other life situation where your truth is not valued. So much of our lives these days seems to challenge the facts.
To make things more complex, we all have childhood memories where we were not allowed to speak or we were not allowed to reveal things we knew.
Protecting your throat chakra boils down to living with your personal integrity.
The truth of our personal integrity is under assault in these times.
Your authenticity depends on you to express your true feelings, wants, and needs.
Your throat chakra also requires that you listen carefully to what is being communicated to you. When you do this, you are participating in a sacred connection.
When this happens, you are able to stand in your truth. This communication means that you listen to people when they respond. You listen to other points of view.
You are able to solve problems, and support others.
This is a wonderful thing!
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