Alternate Realities

I recently watched the movie "The Vow" on Valentine's Day starring Channing Tatum and Rachel Mcadams with a girl friend of mine after work. I was getting ready for such a cheesy romantic chick flick but then I was surprised at how honestly good the movie is, really crafted storytelling. The beginning brings you to the point of the present reality of the couple and then the accident happens. Its pretty good in that it does describe all the moments of "impact" as the character Leo describes it. The ending of the movie presents a reality and not your average happy ending. I really enjoyed Channing Tatum's acting and the character he played, he's unbelievably a great actor and he has so much character in the movie. You would fall in love with his character!

There were a few thoughts I had about the message of this movie, and I'm sorry if I ruin it for some of you who may not have seen it yet! But it is interesting to note that "Paige" played by Rachel Mcadams didn't remember the last four years of her life that she spent with her husband Leo. She had lost most of her short-term memory and could only remember up to the point where she left law school and made a sudden change in her life, which included following her passions to pursue art. Okay, I'll stop right there and not give away the rest of the story.

And it also made me think about the movie Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow and the idea that life can have alternate realities based upon what we decide to choose in our paths. In some far-fetched realm of higher consciousness, we can fantasize about the idea that we can live in many different ways and choose different ways of living. The sum of our experiences have made us who we are today, positive or negative. That each experience taught us an important lesson that brought us to an expanded awareness and consciousness. I'd like to think that each experience in our lives help us contribute to a higher and elevated mind state, either through works of art or a contribution to an evolving society. If you are open, aware, and carefully observing the world around you-- we can tap into these higher states of consciousness through the universal mind. It is open for anyone to tap into, but are you open? Opening up to this level of consciousness can bring about creative works of art, not just visual art, but also through writing, film, and books...

But in the end everything comes together to form the present you, that everything we do is out of love. Love and Joy are the highest form of vibration and the moment you tap into this yourself, the more the world pours love onto you! I believe the world is better when you have found the love inside of you first and are open to giving that love to the world around you. You have to give to receive. That is a universal law. And living in gratitude brings so much love into your life.

Believe in love it is a grounding force.


xoxo
Diane

Signs

A week ago I had something really interesting happen to me. I was on the phone with a good friend of mine from San Francisco and we were talking about my writing and the dream space. We got into an amazing discussion about setting the intention before going to bed as prayers, to do the work in the dream state and to figure out the things I wanted to write about with the novel I'm working on. So that when I woke up in the morning I would do the work automatically when I write. I ended up being on the phone with her for two hours and had forgotten that I had left the kettle on over the stove, I wanted to make some tea. But because I was on the phone I forgot!


I went to bed soon after the phone call and prayed. I prayed and I called in my spirit guides to help me discover new things in the dream world. I was laying in bed trying to fall asleep and suddenly I felt an energy and a buzzing go through me and my right ear. I have been aware of this buzzing and energy that seems to go through me for the last 5 years of my life. The buzzing usually comes in through my left ear and I have seen orbs along with the buzzing in clear daylight. They are so much more evident during the day and much easier to see the orbs. But sometimes I can see color at night in dim lighting. 


This time I felt like there was something different about the buzzing since it went through the right side of my body. And so I thought cool my guides heard me and my prayers because I felt them. Then I went to sleep. The kitchen is actually in a separate apartment from my bedroom and so of course leaving the kettle on the stove was something that completely evaded my mind because I was literally down the hall in separate quarters.


At about 4 am, one of my roomates knocked on my door and woke me up to tell me what had happened. The kettle burnt up and it smelled like gas in our kitchen from the fumes. I felt completely horrible about the fact that I forgot and that I could of been responsible for a bad accident. My two roomates work odd hours and had just gotten home and had caught the thing burnt up. I'm just really thankful no one got hurt.


I just can't believe I forgot. I know I am human and we make mistakes. That energy going through my right ear was completely giving me a warning about something in my physical waking world but I didn't listen. Rather I didn't understand. But now I do. I feel like sometimes things like that happen in our lives to make us understand and to differentiate between things and to really know and recognize what the messages are that are being shown to us. 


Awareness. That's what I learned.