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Remembering the Peace Within

sun reflectionsI see the earth as a living being, Mother Earth. With all of her inhabitants being passengers…and even parasites at times. Our relationship with her is symbiotic: If one suffers, we all suffer. We all know this. Science explains this in minute details! Philosophers have talked about it for ages.

If I focus on this concept and allow the true meaning to flow forward, I can see the interconnectedness of everything. Every facet of my reality has meaning and messages for me. I designed it that way!  I see each person as a reflection of the world they have created for themselves with their messages and meanings. And then as we connect each person to the next and we have a bigger picture of this reality, it has meaning and messages for those contributing to its design. So as we move farther and farther out, bringing us a bigger and bigger picture, the meaning and messages are for a bigger and bigger audience. You get the picture I’m painting here!

So if I believe the above is true, the inverse must be true too. The messages and meanings from the bigger perspective must have meaning for me too. Appearing on a grand scale or up close and personal in my day-to-day life. Struggle and strife in the world reflects struggle and strife in the individuals. This is where I find the opportunity to remember. To remember I am all of this: beauty, ugly, weak and strong. Loved and unloved. In this remembering, there is a sense of peace that I haven’t found anywhere else. A peace that means the struggle and longing are over, we are done, we have it all. We are it all and it is perfect! As we remember the peace within each of us, it begins to reflect outward into the bigger picture, the bigger picture of the wholeness. Each of us is a reflection of the wholeness. Just as each drop of water reflects the sun after a rainstorm in the picture above, we reflect the wholeness.
Sarah Avignone, Trinity Instructor

Sarah Avignone
Trinity Energy Progression Instructor

Endings and Beginnings: Progressing Unencumbered

MaryBlog0316-bAs we’re all aware, life is accelerating. In the past several weeks alone, we’ve had Leap Day, a total solar eclipse in Pisces, and watched the Downton Abbey finale (sniff 🙁 ). Though these may seem unrelated, I consider all three examples of endings and beginnings.

I love the idea of Leap Day – once every four years, we have an extra day devoted exclusively to moving forward! The timing was perfect for it to occur this year, while we’ve been stepping beyond our previous mode of healing wounds/releasing the past to creating our new reality. I’m reminded of an astrology reading suggesting that instead of deciding what to take from the rubble of my past, I simply turn around and step into my future. That seems true for us all: time to remember how to leap forward into our custom-designed lives.

The solar eclipse in Pisces on March 8th represented another doorway to our future selves. In a total solar eclipse, the sun, moon and earth align, with the moon between the earth and the sun. This temporary blockage of the sun is a time of transition, of facing and integrating our shadow side so we can proceed beyond the limited experiences of our past into greater wholeness. We may feel snapped into awareness of situations that previously felt acceptable but are no longer. We may be inspired to create objects or opportunities that better express our inner truth. I took the above picture of a Hallmark bag slogan, which is very much the message of the eclipse. Let bygones be bygones! Keep your focus in the NOW, which we’re creating as we speak.

As a devoted fan of Downton Abbey, I relished the final episode. However sanitized a representation of early 20th century British aristocracy, I enjoyed the empowered female characters, the embrace of modernized social structure and the triumph of love in healthy, balanced relationships. (Minor spoiler alert for those who haven’t seen the finale!) The final scene at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve following an a-cappella rendition of “Auld Lang Syne” captured the idea of standing at the threshold. I share Granny and Isobel Crawley’s high hopes for the future: “Whatever it may bring … We’re going forward into the future, not back into the past.”

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Mary Hogan
Trinity Energy Progression Facilitator/Practitioner

Priority #1: LOVE YOURSELF

loveyourselfThe saying goes, “we are our own worst critic,” and it is so true!  What I notice most about myself and the clients with whom I work is… we can be really mean and hateful to ourselves. We beat ourselves up for things we felt we should have done better and we often give little credit when appreciation is due.

I did not realize how negative my thoughts were about myself until one day I was at a spa taking a mineral bath.  I decided to go through each of my body parts and send loving thoughts to all of my body, piece by piece.  As I did this and moved around from my eyes, to my nose, to cheeks, chest, stomach and so on, I remembered all the nasty thoughts I had in my past about nearly EVERY single body part.

I had been completely unloving to myself and my physical body. I have had negative thoughts about my nose, my eyes, arms, stomach, thighs, hips, legs, head, feet, hands and on and on. The only body part that I never was cruel to was my ears and elbows!!  Pretty much everything else had been attacked in one way or another.

This is just one example of how my thoughts have been directed towards my body. I could spend another few pages talking about how mean I am about other aspects of my life, but let’s not go there today. You get the point.

I believe many of us experience these discouraging thoughts about ourselves. My goal here today is to let you know you are not alone in this experience. Nearly EVERYONE has these thoughts!

So, what can we do? I have a few tips that can help you shift the energy around how you feel about yourself. These have been effective for me as I am moving towards more self-love and acceptance. These suggestions also help to increase awareness about how you really are treating yourself.

SUGGESTIONS TO LEARN TO LOVE YOURSELF A LITTLE MORE!

  1. Look at yourself, or rather into your eyes every day in front of the mirror and tell yourself how much your love yourself. Let you know how amazing and wonderful you are.  (Sometimes, I can’t quite feel that emotion, so if I’m not “feeling” it that day, I ask that I love myself as much as source/god/creator/the universe loves me).
  2. Find ways to appreciate yourself. Give yourself compliments and encouragement even if you just did something small.  Maybe you went for a walk instead of watching TV.  Give yourself a pat on the back.
  3. Notice when you’re being “mean” or experiencing negative self-talk. Chose a mantra or a phrase that helps to shift from that experience.  My favorite is, “I love and accept myself just the way I am with unconditional love”! Repeat this as needed and even more powerful to do in meditation.
  4. Journal or meditate about your feelings. Some of these lower vibration thoughts and feelings need a place to go and need to be acknowledged.  Release them by writing them out, by meditating on them or allowing the emotion to be expressed.  Sometimes we just need a good cry to let these go.
  5. Practice vigilant self-care every day and every week. Do something every day that supports your well-being.  It could be taking a 10 minute walk or a 10 minute breathing meditation.  It could be to read an inspiring message from a book or article.  Then do something once a week that really makes you happy for at least an hour!
  6. Be patient with yourself. You are here to experience these challenges to overcome them and ultimately come from a place of unconditional love for self and all.  I may be an idealist, but I believe that is our true nature to be in a state of LOVE and we can ALL get there!!

Coming from the perspective that loving yourself is your number one priority allows you to get in touch with who you really are.  It helps you to shift more quickly from less than desired feelings to feelings of joy, happiness, love and peace.  Isn’t that what most of us are striving for?  Enjoying life, helping others and feeling good? If you get in with and follow your heart, you will find your way back to LOVE!

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Jennifer Cunnings
Trinity Energy Progression Facilitator/Practitioner

True In-Dependence and Healing: Listen, Listen, Listen…

Divine-being2Getting to a place of fully standing in our power can definitely cause a path of flowing through what the ego perceives as discomfort… sometimes pretty extreme! And, though I don’t dwell on my experiential stories or wear them like an armband…believe me, I know.

As the originator of Trinity Energy Progression, in discussions with others, I often get the attitude of, “Well, what do YOU know about my challenges? It comes easy to you…”

I typically laugh when that comes up, because even the logic of that thinking doesn’t make sense! How does one most typically master anything in the 3D (or come into full remembrance of it), but with practical application? I’ve worked with many, many clients and students… first and foremost, I’ve flowed through some heavy duty stuff myself! Granted, part of my plan included walking a path of awakening and remembrance (gladly) without  the need for a huge, traumatic wake-up call, like a near-death experience (NDE) or a life-threatening disease or injury, as many have… but instead, I chose to flow through a LOT of typical, everyday challenges that many write off as unchangeable, and “something to manage” vs. something to change altogether. I just don’t live in the drama of any “stories” of situation… and only feel the need to discuss them when it’s an important relevant point to a conversation.

Early on in my practice, guidance came to me about the extreme importance of helping others to step in their own power fully, to help others realize that we all create our own reality… and that includes injury, sickness, and limitations of all kinds. My higher self (and those who I call my journey companions, as well) pushed on me and pushed on me for practical application… and to be able to fully walk THAT talk as I began to teach it.

This is because one of the most challenging practices in our spiritual “ascension” – aka “remembrance” – is to break some very deeply embedded beliefs and habits in the 3/4D; one of the most deeply embedded habits is that of giving away our power, and believing that someone or something outside of our Self has more information that we do. This is especially true in terms of doctors, authority figures of all types, teachers, parents, friends, Google… and others we consider as having “the answers” (including professional psychics, mediums, channelers, and healers) over ourselves. I always tell new clients and students – and teach the same – that ultimately, NO ONE heals us but ourselves! Not a doctor, a healer… not medicine, or anything of the sort. We can absolutely energetically support the “healing” part with great tools that help us physically align ourselves with the vibration of expressing health, to help ourselves get better. However, it’s ultimately our choice to heal, to energetically shift ourselves. If that wasn’t the case, then everyone would heal in the exact way, in the exact same time frame. That’s DEFINITELY not so!

My understanding for the past five years or so is that to better remember and recognize this, much of what we consider “standard” medicines/treatment will begin to stop working (which they have), along with anything else to which we’ve given away our power. All created here are absolutely tools! However, we’ve become so externalized that the tools we’ve created have become crutches… because we’ve given away our power to them. The Band-Aid has become the answer in the 3D, and we put one Band-Aid on top of another, often distracting ourselves with our attention and energy on the Band-Aid instead of simply looking at and shifting the original cause of the “wound” itself.

So, on my path, I was continuously pushed to learn to change my habits… and to listen, first and foremost, to know what to listen to, and secondly, what my guidance tells me is highest and best for MY progress! Over the doctors, others, and the Internet.

I was talking about this with someone recently, and they wanted to know some specifics on how I was required to do this. I had to think back to where the really active part of this journey began… what came to mind was one particular very annoying instance, and one that in retrospect is sort of a funny story:

  1. Back in the very beginning of saturating myself in the world of the spiritual/metaphysical, quantum physics, and healing and self-empowerment, one weekend, I’d decided to clear out an entire patch – probably about four feet by oh, twenty feet or so – of poison ivy that had grown on a secondary property we used to own. I’d never had a reaction to poison ivy, but thought I had it covered – I wore jeans, work boots, work gloves… and a t-shirt. After I finished this exercise, I took a hot shower and scrubbed down with the most astringent soap I could find (I know, I know… for you poison ivy aficionados, yes, I of course NOW see the issues there!). And then I moved on.Two days later, I woke up with the worst blistering rash I’ve ever had! It covered my wrists to just past my elbows (and thank goodness I’d had work gloves on!). Blisters upon blisters… upon blisters. My first habitual reaction was… remembering that we had prednisone in the house from the year before, when one of my dogs had died from lymphoma and had needed the steroid to help keep the swelling down in his last days. Several times, I’d head toward my bathroom, where the medicine cabinet is; every time I did that, I’d hear, “No.”Several times, I thought of going to urgent care to see if there was anything they could do… every time, I’d hear, “No.”I was to look at this, change this reality, and dissipate this myself.
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    The first few days, I distracted myself with every home remedy I could find via Google and asking others via social media: apple cider vinegar and baking soda, calamine lotion… I can’t remember how many different things I tried. All I know is that I made a huge mess all over my house, and made myself even more miserable because none of them, in this severe case, did much to help for very long.That was the 3D mind, trying to distract with analysis and find the best Band-Aid, as quickly as possible.Finally, when I was equally miserable several days later, with the seeping nastiness that was my forearms (still with the argument going on in my mind over taking a steroid), I shut myself up in a room and began to meditate; I began to do energy healing on myself… and I finally turned to my guidance, my higher self… and/or my journey companions. What the ^*&!#? What’s this all about? What’s going to help already? This is misery!The first thing that popped into my head was someone I knew at the time, who had not too long before this been telling me about something called colloidal silver that he made at home; how it’s the basis for what hospitals use for the strongest antiseptics (including on burns), and how it’s great for a variety of things. I didn’t know why the recollection of this conversation suddenly popped into my head… so I reached out to him via an email. He responded that he had some he’d just made that he could bring over, because it works great on such skin situations.My guidance was that this would help.It did. (And an aside: Today, I use colloidal silver to support SO MUCH in the physical! My husband and kids, both as much of a fan of the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding as I am, claim that colloidal silver is “my Windex” LOL!)

    While I was exploring this, I also understood that there was something for me to try that I could get at Whole Foods. So I wrapped up my arms, hid them in a long sleeved shirt, and in trudging to the store found out there was a homeopathic remedy I could take. I hesitated because of the nature of the homeopathy… but guidance was to get it, as wary as I was! It helped a lot. For several more days, I used these new tools (given to me via my guidance), I sat in meditation and self-focus utilizing all of the energy healing modalities I knew at the time, and looked at the cause and purpose of my physical reaction. The more I shifted within myself… the easier it became, the less it itched, and the faster the rash began to dissolve.The worst of it was the first several days… and once I started that internal focus, it seemed to progress in its dissolution more and more quickly.This was a HUGE lesson for me! In fact, up until this point, I’d had a number of allergic reactions (aka irritations) that manifested on my skin, to a number of different things, that had increased in manifestation over time. Once I’d gotten the whole (non-physical) point of the poison ivy reaction, and energetically what to look at to dissipate the situation… I applied it to my other skin issues. Wouldn’t you know that it became easier and easier to change and shift ALL of them… so that the irritation/allergic reaction didn’t happen anymore? Today, I’m SO glad to be able to use pretty much any of the ingredients that used to cause me hives and rashes, because I’ve changed the non-physical part of what caused them, within me.

  2. Here’s a (sort of) funny one! For the first time ever, I developed a hemorrhoid (seriously, I’m going there). It quickly became P-A-I-N-F-U-L! I started in the same vein as was typical: on the Internet, wondering 1) if I should get medical help, and 2) what was such a “pain in the butt” in my life that it was manifesting in this way!
    I heard, quite distinctly: You already have the answer.I remember hearing this in my master bathroom. My attention was directed over toward a jar sitting on the corner of my vanity, which contained a cream I’d gotten from a friend that was good for sunburns in the summertime; it was made of a collection of different ocean herbs.I thought, “Nah… that won’t work.” (Because it couldn’t be THAT easy… and who SAID this cream would help hemmorhoids?)

    It got worse and worse… until I was sitting on a pillow! Nothing over the counter from the drug store worked; nor did some of the remedies I tried. Yet, almost every day, when I was in my master bathroom, my attention would again get pulled to that jar of cream sitting in the corner… and every time, I would discount the idea and move on.One night, I woke up around 4am, I was SO frustrated… and my butt hurt! I again turned inward, and yelled inside, What can I do to get rid of this? Enough already!” Again… a pull toward the jar with the cream. At this point, I thought, What the heck? Worst that could happen is nothing, like everything else...So I used the cream, slathered my butt… and went back to bed.

    The hemorrhoid was about 80% deflated when I woke up in the morning, the pain was completely gone… the remainder dissipated within a few days, and it’s never come back!

The lesson: Listen to what comes from inside… because that’s where the answer lies. Always.

InnerGuidanceThere are so, so many other situations I could list that were “self test” after “self test”… and every time, I became more and more confident in my own inner answer. After both incidents in such consciousness those years ago, I began to listen to the answer when it comes to me in the way of my higher self… even (actually, especially) if the answer is against “standard practice” or “standard knowledge.” And I’ve never been steered wrong! This is what I teach others to remember, in all facets of their existence… as more and more, the “standard resolutions/answers” don’t apply anymore. My understanding is that we set it up that way so we would force ourselves to remember; worst comes to worst, we put our back up against the wall and give ourselves no other choice! We CAN be and often ARE that much in refusal, in a habit of disempowerment and accepting the opinions of others over our own knowing, that we put those experiences in our way so we can remember and stand in our Divine awesomeness! I have so many other examples and situations that have transpired, for me and for clients/students… time and time again, resolution comes when the individual stops drowning the mind with the answers of others that they step back and remember the answer themselves. This has to do with everything in one’s existence… from the physical, mental, emotional, environmental… all of it!

It’s when we accept the responsibility that we create our entire reality that we remember that we alone can change it. That why so many are surprised in the use of Trinity Energy Progression… because eventually, it helps the individual surpass the “mind,” the need for rituals, standards, and guidance from another – leapfrogging over “analysis paralysis” – and on to living by and trusting inner guidance, completely, while standing completely in the power of our own Divine truth! The more quickly we do that… the more adept we become at shifting and changing, so much so that something that plagues us one minute can literally be completely out of our reality the next, in a way that one even mostly forgets about it (seriously… this is SO COOL to experience AND to watch!).

Yes, it IS that easy… separation/duality and its liaison, the ego, has developed to complete a long set of lessons through the beliefs that tell us the answer comes from the outside. We created the game; we can change it!

Is it a multi-step process to get there? Typically. We’ve fully explored being ruled by the mind, ego, and disempowerment that it takes a bit of practice; in the past, when an individual has wanted such an experience of remembrance, they’ve given themselves many changes to do so, until the situation becomes dire and/or near-fatal (a great example of the instantaneous realization of full creation and self-empowerment via a NDE is the book Dying to Be Me, by Anita Moorjani). However, it IS our choice: The sooner we remember how to listen to the higher consciousness (vs. the ego and others),  the faster and more graceful and easy – and fun – our experience becomes!

If you’re ready for this, and want some help along the way… that’s what Trinity is all about! Whether you’d like to focus on your own self-development (which, of course, is MOST important for ALL of us), or do a combination of self-development and helping others to do the same, see the Events/Classes page to get started.

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Namaste,
Angela Coulter
Orginator, Trinity Energy Progression

Come Play in Life…Get Out Your Kaleidoscope and Join Me!

LaurelLey_blog2_020216Ever felt as if you were just going through the motions?  Found yourself frowning more than smiling in life? Wondering if this is all life has to offer?  Counting the days, hours, and/or minutes to the next moment you might feel some pleasure, regardless of the source or of how little it might last?  Find yourself doing things which are out of integrity for who you’d like to be in life in order to just feel good about something?  Hesitant to look too closely at your past choices and actions for fear of being overwhelmed by too much emotion, possibly regret?

If so, you’re not alone.  I had felt that way for a good majority of my life, and wasn’t even aware of it.  I was born in 1960 and raised Catholic… including 18 years of Catholic school. In that era, there seemed to be an overriding life philosophy of sacrifice and suffering and just not having “too much” fun. Or, if you did, you were “bucking the system.”  This still seems to be a perception in society, at least in the United States. Otherwise, if you’re having “too much fun,” which usually means enjoying all aspects of life … then you must be “up to something” or “getting away with something”.  I mean, surely we’re not supposed to be enjoying life when others might judge we need to be “upset” or “concerned.”

Yep, I am “up to” enjoying life … I am “getting away” with enjoying all aspects of my life! Nowadays, I look at most aspects of life as fascinating.

Life can be so much more than just plodding through.  Not only is it possible … it’s possible for YOU, AND it doesn’t have to take years or lots of money.  For me, it’s merely taken the willingness to change how I viewed life.

So, if you’re ready to experience the inner shifting of how you view life … If you’re ready to fully experience life including one regularly filled with fun, joy, bliss, happiness, laughter … and most of all, PEACE … then keep on reading.

Regardless of the day-to-day things that can pull at us and our peace, this is within your reach. It’s okay if your health, boss, job, relationship, finances, living situation, anything that has issues – and some seem insurmountable – is not how you want to live in this moment. I found that once I came to look at life fully – when I came to ACCEPT what had happened, what choices I had made and especially what actions I took –  the peace started to come.

So what happened?  What changed my inner perspective?

LaurelLey2_blog3_020216Around 2009, it’s as if a light switch went on.  I realized I just didn’t want to continue to live my life feeling unfulfilled, feeling as if I was subject to the whims of life.  It wasn’t necessarily one thing that turned on the light; it was the accumulation of a series of things. I think I finally got to the point of being “sick and tired” of being miserable and hoping for more.  I became willing to shift and live more.  In retrospect, the things which at the time I labeled “not fair”, “negative”, “bad things” are the ones for which I am now most grateful,

Initially, the peace came in small spurts … then in waves … ebbing and receding …. until one day I realized that it wasn’t the waves which reflected the peace …. it was experiencing the whole of the ocean, whether calm or storms … which reflected the entirety of the tapestry of my life and was key to my inner peace.  When I fully looked into some of the seemingly more painful aspects of my life, I realized I wouldn’t be where I am now without each of those incidents occurring. I thought of the many people whose lives I touched in the simplest of ways, a “hello,” a smile … I wouldn’t be there in that moment unless everything had unfolded in my life how it had!  Was I willing to risk changing my history, not knowing the effect on others?  Instead of longing to have experienced a different history, a different series of pasts … I realized what I could do is change how I viewed it all.

In one of my favorite and enlightening resources of all time – which I was introduced to in 2012 –  an article in Sun Magazine titled “The Prayer for the Body,” Stephen Schwartz says:

This work is an exercise in nonviolence toward oneself — approaching everything we’ve called an enemy with absolute, undeviating love. It is an exercise in personal nonviolence, in treating oneself with the most unbelievable compassion. ….

There are people who would try to bring nonviolence into the world, even though they can’t approach their own loneliness with complete nonviolence. How could they deal with somebody else in a nonviolent way? To know nonviolence means that you have no enemies inside yourself; that your loneliness, your grief, your anger are not your enemies.

A couple of years later (during which time was the beginning of deep self-work) I was introduced to Trinity Energy Progression, and my life began to change in exponential ways. All the pieces snapped into place. I took responsibility for creating the life I want to live NOW, and moving forward.

Across all of the experiences I had, all that I studied, I began to be grateful for everything, every pain, every heartache, and every sadness. I started to love myself, and my entire life. I began to embrace those aspects which were scary. Most importantly to me, I became willing to release my attachment to all of these situations, to looking at life only through a grey lens.  I took out my kaleidoscope, literally, and made a decision to view life through that lens; through multiple reflections.

It was when my relationship with life changed and I have been on an active path to learn to be “grateful” for everything and I mean EVERYTHING ….. to learn to look at every single thing as a mirror for me to have an opportunity to shift how I view life ….. to accept myself, all of my choices and all of my actions … and to have peace about it all.  My attitude, NONE of my attitude has anything to do with anyone else.

Some might think I had an “easier” life then they did and this shift isn’t possible for you with how your life has been … I guarantee you …. IT IS POSSIBLE.  It’s the divine right of each of us to live a life of peace.

The specifics of my path aren’t necessarily relevant as each path is different AND you do NOT have to go through a long, complex process … The interesting paradox is in coming to a place of loving everything about yourself and your life, especially my “past” freed me up to live life in the present.

So, here’s what I suggest you consider doing:

  1. Love yourself; embrace all aspects of yourself;
  2. Cultivate an “attitude of gratitude” …. If there are some things you can’t yet be grateful for, then start at becoming willing to be grateful for those situations and people;
  3. Stop judging anything and everything, including yourself and your life;
  4. Put the focus of YOUR life on YOU ….. no matter what, look at every situation as a reflection of something you are choosing to experience … you CAN do this, it may take practice;
  5. Look at any resistance, any reaction to anyone or any situation as the road map for your inner work …

When you start living your life realizing that YOU can change how you react to anything, you will begin to experience inner peace and a new freedom you could only dream of. Continue on that path, and it will become your reality.

As Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl of “Man’s Search for Meaning” says,

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Come on, get out your kaleidoscope and let’s play!  Want to know more?  Feel free to contact me.  I’m always happy to connect, and to play!

With gratitude for my life,

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Laurel Ley
Trinity Energy Progression Facilitator/Practitioner