Dear Guides,

How can we deal with performance anxiety when we are presenting ourselves or our work and being judged?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 2.23.2010:

Dear ones,

If only you could fully understand that your every effort, when aligned with your purpose, your intention, what you wish to achieve with your efforts, is, in fact, a perfect reflection of who you are at any given time. There is no need to “try” to be something that you aren’t.

There is only just fitting your hands into the gloves of who you already are, putting them on, modeling them for others to see, and enjoying your moment of alignment with Spirit and the Universe.

If you can experience this and practice it over and over, this feeling that you are simply putting on your very own gloves, just being who you are, just sharing who you are at the moment, then you will reduce the anxiety and the feeling that you need to prove yourselves.

And at the same time you will reduce a lot of pent-up negative energy which can then be used for much more productive means! Such as experiencing the joy of being who you are! Or the enthusiasm of being in the moment, happy to participate in the game of the unfolding of your own destiny.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein
Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Performance Anxiety 2.23.2010

Dear Guides,

What does it mean to open one’s heart? How can we open our hearts – to others, to life/God, to loving ourselves? What value or impact does this have?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 2.16.2010:

Dear ones,

Here you are speaking of the path of the heart, opening that vessel to the flow, to the influx of love from the force of all love in the Universe, allowing this love to permeate your sometimes-well-protected carapace, something you may have erected to protect your fragile inner spark, to protect it from winds that could make it flutter or sputter out.

First, allow yourself to receive this love within, swirling around, healing and nourishing you. And then the other side of the flow is to pass it back out into the world surrounding you, “sharing the wealth” you have allowed yourself to receive. This currency of love is free to all to receive and recycle and glorify and share and enhance.

In its simplest sense, this is the basis of your abundance, your prosperity in your world. In fact, it is the same in many worlds, all through the Universe, because it is one expression of the life force. You can choose to see everything through this lens. And it can only enhance your vision and your life to consider love as the basis of all, the element from which all is constructed.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein
Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Opening the Heart 2.16.2010

Dear Guides,

How do we break out of the endless cycle of always feeling behind?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 2.9.2010:

Dear ones,

You are in a cycle of time, you live in that paradigm. It is part of the system you have chosen on Earth. So this is not something you can ignore altogether. The rules of the game. But it is a game. And when you are open to the mysteries of the greater beings that you are, even while you are committed to living in your human bodies, you can play by a wider variety of rules to your game.

We are reminding you that there are ways to tap into the “beyond time and space” which you can cultivate, including asking for our help. These ways will create short-cuts to accomplishing things you want to complete with such grace and ease that they will begin disappearing before your very eyes. This is the approach which creates phrases like, “Miracles happen!” So know that you have access to these approaches.

But in the meantime, assuming that you are not accessing this kind of outside help and these greater resources in order to live your life, what kinds of strategies would you be able to integrate into your daily life? And how to adjust the feelings from anxiety about responsibilities and accomplishments and your schedule to a feeling of freedom?

Yes, the feeling of freedom, being a free agent in your life, being the one who chooses and is empowered to define the parameters and the focus of one’s life is a most prized possession. The more you can cultivate and recognize any single moment when you genuinely feel that at that moment you are the master of your universe, the captain of your ship, the better.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein
Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Feeling Behind in Our Work 2.9.2010

Dear Guides,

What to do when we feel ourselves moving into the victim role, along with its supporting cast, complaining, blaming and nagging?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 2.2.2010:

Dear ones,

We are so grateful that you deliver such delicious questions to us that express the questioning of your generation, your peers on the journey. This can open such a moment of revelation for the many that are making such valiant efforts to move into the bright stream of light which you all can then carry on your Earth, cutting through the clouds of negativity like a knife, just carving up the darkness and filling it with light. We see how many of you are so enthusiastically making these changes, embracing the light, and as a result living such improved moments of joy, clarity and connectedness with the divine energy which is your birthright.

And so we remind you, that is the very reason why you would want to move towards that unknown at the very moment you are pulled by a known feeling, even if it is a dark one, of feeling powerless, at the mercy of the events in your lives, at the mercy of others’ wills, their whims, of the rules and regulations of your complex society. In other words, these are the moments when you feel like true victims and you desire to lay low and just wallow in the mud. And then you need to remember why that choice may not be the best one for you.

Granted, even mud can be appealing, warm, comforting, squishy, just oh so down-to-Earth when you abandon yourself to it, isn’t that so? And this familiarity beckons you. It is part of your comfort zone. Because quite frankly, if you are pulled towards a role like the victim role, it is because you have already lived it over and over and over again. You have engrained the habit of this mindset into your minds, brains, neurons, pathways of behavior, thoughts and actions. And as you already know, when you think like this, you bring more and more of it onto yourselves, as well.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein
Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Victimhood 2.2.2010

Dear Guides,

How can we release the desire for approval?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 1.26.2010:

Dear ones,

Ah, but some of you are plagued by this longing for approval. And you do not need to be. There is no inherent benefit to you to receive approval from your world-mates, from your society, from your family, from your neighbors, from your friends, from your work-mates, from any who surround you. Each of you is on a journey which is so totally independent, in terms of what you are seeking, what you are trying to learn, and what you are trying to achieve. It is an illusion to think that you need input and guidance from those around you.

What you need, rather, is a clear connection from within, a strong feeling of being in the present moment, in touch with how you are feeling, how you are situated in the greater context of your environment, your place in the Universe, your personal goals, and your desires to co-create in beauty and harmony with those around you. A major part of the focus is on the inner qualities of how you are feeling inside yourself and within the world or context. And the other part is how you fit with the others around you and how you feel co-creating the things that you engage in with them. So both the inner world and the outer world come together in the moment. But approval from the outside is not the same as co-creating to manifest the projects you envision with others.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein

Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Seeking Approval 1.26.2010

Dear Guides,

Tell us more about the power of knowing, “I am right,” within oneself, as opposed to being buffeted by others’ opinions and second guessing oneself.

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 1.19.2010:

Dear ones,

In this sacred moment, as you ask a question about inner knowing, self-determination and self-direction, we come very close around you, because this question sets up the delicate balance of what you have chosen to face in this lifetime, the expansions you desire, the challenges you are ready to experience, the things you are here to learn – and these are balanced or juxtaposed next to the co-creating that you are doing with the other souls with whom you have made agreements for experiences and learnings together in this lifetime. And then, as well, these two elements are both interacting with the outer world, or the rest of the world’s natural tendency to influence, to spill out in its boundless exuberance, stirring up all kinds of well-meaning bits of chaos and grit upon which you can fine tune your skills and also adjust your trajectory.

So you see, we can’t exactly give a simple answer like, “When you know, just follow that - never sway to one side or another,” thus supporting your steadfastness to a goal or a desire. It is the nature of life on Earth to constantly be evolving, shifting, adjusting, hearing inner calls and outer calls, which are also the voices of wisdom, always trying to expand your vision and your perception of the possibilities open to you in this lifetime, as you evolve to be ready to integrate more into your field of vision.

Your question implies a deep inner trust, which is the beautiful key to your path. And yet when this inner trust bumps up against great resistance, from outside but also from within - that “second-guessing voice” - there are lessons inherent in that.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein

Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Inner Knowing You’re Right 1.19.2010

Dear Guides,

Can you tell us more about the process of allowing? How do we allow things to be perfect just the way they are and what role does this letting go play in the manifestation of what we want?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 1.12.2010:

Dear ones,

This question opens the door to the guidance on living your lives in this world you have chosen. This is the technique you have been seeking for so long, as you come closer and closer to living in alignment or from the center of your divine inner knowing, rather than from the fringes of fear where you are so vulnerable to the winds that buffet you around hither and yon.

The more you can feel the center, the peace in the center of the storm, the more you know when you are balanced inside, and stable. And with that relaxed, poised energy of preparedness, you become like a cat, with that pure energy, that which allows you to jump at any moment, hiding or encapsulated within your deep relaxation. This brings you confidence. Part of it is the knowledge of your prowess, part of it is the trust in the Universe. You begin to feel how when you activate both yourself and your unlimited force within, together, anything is possible.

This inner sense of knowing that all is possible - or it could be called trust that the Universe will bring you everything you desire - is a way of relaxing the gnawing anxiety that you “should, should, should” be something different than you are, or do something different than you are doing.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein

Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Allowing 1.12.2010

Dear Guides,

How can we better channel through art?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 1.5.2010:

Dear ones,

You are asking about tuning in to the hum of the Universe, transmitting the deep, inner pulse of the Source within all matter and being, which is the micro- and macro-unit of all life. This stream of pure energy is always available to each artist and soul creating on any level, whether it is a life, a work, an idea, or solving a problem, or even creating a relationship or an interchange between two souls.

But while you may easily remain distracted from hearing this pulse when you are in the fray of daily existence, juggling many things simultaneously, and trying to accommodate others as you move forward in your own path, when you designate time to “do your art,” you actually give yourself the potential to have a hiatus from the push and pull of daily life and to step into a zone where you consciously focus on that pulse of the Universe.

Or not.

For there are many other layers or levels of pulse that you can be receptive to.

You can tap into the emotional level and express the turmoil of human emotions. There is nothing inherently wrong with this by any means. It is an expression of human nature, of the turbulence of vibrations that many of you are surrounded with, that you unconsciously or consciously choose to be surrounded with, in your daily lives. This layer of energy brings incredible passion and color to your art. It can carry the true voice of the human experience, and have a power to captivate many, many souls who are longing to see their own dilemmas reflected in order to gain understanding and perspective about them.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein

Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Art as Channeling 1.5.2010

Dear Guides,

What might a new economy look like where money was not the primary motivator, rather people’s aspirations and focus of exchange revolve around creativity and service?

Excerpt from Minda’s channeling on 12.29.2009:

Dear ones,

Oh, how exciting and creative of you to envision this question which will allow you to envision the answer, which is the first step to creating the new. You are 100% moving towards light to ask and envision these questions. And by doing this, you bring more and more into the consciousness of the many who surround you and who come in contact with you. This is how the process works to raise consciousness on the planet on which you live.

There are so many, many possible futures for you in your society and on your planet, or in any distinct community, for that matter, as long as there is harmony with those involved. In order to expand your vision of the possibilities, which are in your own power to choose to move towards, think of this range.

On the one hand, there could be a society which totally manifests everything through personal vision and creation, where each individual sees the contents of their universe to be filled with objects of their own creation, juxtaposed and overlaying others with their own visions.

An in-between ground could be one where all peoples share the set of contexts together, but the society does not use counting and measuring and any remuneration at all, or any quantitative measurement at all, and there is only a free-floating sense of well-being that is revered and sought after and “measured” by each individual.

Or it can be more like the current extreme where things are counted, listed, measured against each other, and there is a constant sense of comparison which is suggested, expected and almost encouraged, certainly normalized, which drains a lot of energy in a non-productive way for the most part.

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Channeling (c) 2010 Minda Bernstein

Painting (c) 2010 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: The New Economy 12.29.2009

Dear Guides,

How does the solstice help us to embrace the new and release the old?

Excerpt from Minda’s channelling on 12.22.2009:

Dear ones,

It is exciting to try to share across the veil some of the processes which go on in this miraculous Universe we share together. We are all co-creators, a part of this whole, and as we combine each of our intentions with the manifestations we have created, including all the planets, space, the relationships between all of the heavenly bodies and your own bodies and cells and microorganisms and everything from the smallest to the largest, we are, indeed, creating the new, the next scene that will play out on the stage of your outer world and reflect inside into your inner worlds, and vice versa.

It is a huge creation workshop, and these moments of solstice and physical landmarks / marking points / punctuations allow shifts to happen in a slightly less laborious way. They are windows when things can slip in, manifestations you have been creating but were not quite ready to receive, states of mind you desire but had not been quite ready to wear with conviction. So these moments of changing quadrants of the seasons and of light, of your physical calendar or the way you divide up the time you perceive, these are windows of opportunity to slide in sideways from one reality to another.

This sounds very abstract, but what it means in your own daily life is that these are special moments to be taken advantage of to clarify and magnify your vision of creation. You can review where you have come from on your journey and choose to focus the next segment . . .

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Channeling (c) 2009 Minda Bernstein

Painting (c) 2009 Julie Bernstein Engelmann

Painting title: Solstice Energy 12.22.2009