2011-01-19
A dozen negative thoughts don’t have the power of one positive thought.
—The Council
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2011-01-18
When you are born
You arrive without baggage.
You accumulate baggage
In the form of beliefs.
It’s time to light-en your load.
—The Council
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2011-01-17
Everything that happens in your experience
Happens by you,
Not to you.
—The Council
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2011-01-16
The sum total of you
Is everyone you have ever been.
You are a work in progress.
—The Council
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2011-01-15
When you leave your physical body
(What you consider Death)
You do not loose any part of who you really are.
You will experience great joy knowing you still exist.
You are still you,
Only light-er.
—The Council 🙂
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2011-01-14
The Power of the Universe is You!
What else did you think it is?
—The Council 🙂
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2011-01-13
Think it’s impossible?
Make the impossible possible
By considering the smallest thought,
By considering the tiniest bit of hope that it can be.
Consider these for just a moment in your time
And you have begun a new creation of what you desire.
—The Council
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2011-01-12
You have heard of a major shift happening on your planet.
It is a shift in consciousness and it is happening right now.
The beginning of this shift is you becoming aware of who you really are,
And that you are the creator of your reality.
When you truly accept this,
Your reality changes.
—The Council
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2011-01-11
If you believe you are
Lovable or unlovable,
Rich or poor,
Healthy or sick,
That is what you will experience.
What you believe
Will show up in your life.
—The Council
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2011-01-10
Ready, willing, and able,
That was your feeling as you embarked on your physical journey.
—The Council
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2011-01-09
Your thoughts and imagination
Are like watching a wonderful black and white movie.
Now if you add your feelings,
Ta da! You’ve got Technicolor.
And as you continue to practice your thoughts, imagination, and feelings,
Very soon you’ll have 3-D
And you’ll be living the movie you’re creating.
—The Council
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2011-01-08
Love allows everything you desire.
It even allows you to create your challenges or things you consider negative.
Nothing is off limits.
—The Council
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2011-01-07
Still looking for miracles?
Look no further.
The power of the universe is in you.
—The Council
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2011-01-06
Want miracles in your life?
In spirit, you know you have the power to create all you desire.
In your physical experience it’s easy to forget this.
Now is the time for remembering — remembering who you really are.
You are the miracle in your life.”
—The Council
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2011-01-05
You are always improving and expanding — non-stop.
That is the miracle of you.
—The Council
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2011-01-04
When you chose to reincarnate,
You came with the understanding that your purpose (or job)
Would be to bring the vibration of love into physical reality.
—The Council
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2011-01-03
As you accept and recognize who you really are,
Your reality changes.
—The Council
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2011-01-02
Fear is just a reminder to align with the spiritual being you truly are.
—The Council
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2011-01-01
As spirit, you experience only the vibration of love.
There’s no fear of being physical and experiencing something that doesn’t feel as good as love.
There’s only the joy of knowing you can change it.
—The Council
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2010-12-31
Every question you have ever asked has been answered.
Only your resistance prevents your answer from reaching you.
—The Council
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2010-12-30
You create yourself moment by moment.
Each new creation stems from who you believe you are.
—The Council
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2010-12-29
When you return from your physical journey,
You are welcomed home with such love and fanfare.
It’s our equivalent of a ticker tape parade in your honor.
—The Council
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2010-12-28
You are not here to control, manage, or fix another person’s life,
But to allow them to grow at their own pace.
The practice of allowing creates freedom, acceptance, and love.
—The Council
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2012-12-27
Discover your potential.
Keep reaching for those better feeling thoughts.
—The Council
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2010-12-26
In every area of your life
You will only experience what is not resisted.
Focus on the possibilities for only a moment,
Allowing manifestation to occur.
—The Council
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2010-12-25
You have unlimited minutes on your creative abilities.
No contract needed. 🙂
—The Council
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2010-12-24
If you compare your many lifetimes to a subway map,
It doesn’t matter what your last stop was or what your next stop will be.
What matters is: there is no last stop.
You are an eternal being.
—The Council
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2010-12-23
Emergency Instructions: When life’s got you in the dumps, think a better feeling thought.
Sick? Think a better feeling thought.
Upset? Better feeling thought.
Lonely? Better feeling thought.
Now you have the hang of it.
—The Council
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2010-12-22
A huge play date.
Meeting old friends, co-creating, and seeing what you can stir up.
Welcome to your physical experience.
—The Council
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2010-12-21
From spirit to physical and back again,
Experiencing expansion and answers,
That is your circle of life.
It’s unending.
—The Council
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2010-12-20
Every moment of your life is perfection.
You are the creator.
Whether you choose contrast or you choose desire,
The Universe will fulfill your request.
—The Council
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2010-12-19
Whether you choose to stay in your physical life for one year or ninety years,
To us in spirit there is no time.
To us it’s as if you walked out the door and immediately came back because you forgot your keys.
—The Council
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2010-12-18
In any given moment
The realization that you are spirit
Brings the knowing that you are okay.
—The Council
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2010-12-17
Tuning into your emotions will immediately show you what you are creating.
Is it contrast or desire?
Being aware is the first step in creating the life you want.
—The Council
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2010-12-16
No soul is ever alone.
Your brothers and sisters in the spiritual world are constantly cheering you on.
—The Council
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2010-12-15
You are pure spirit expressing itself in the physical.
You have come to enjoy the dance of life,
Sometimes leading, sometimes following,
But always with the intent to find joy in every step.
—The Council
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2010-12-13
With every thought, you become your own magic genie.
What are you creating?
—The Council
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2010-12-12
With every happy thought or memory,
With every feeling of joy,
Your vibration lifts and expansion occurs.
—The Council
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Introducing Councilisms
Since we began publishing this blog in March 2010 the primary focus of our posts has been to answer questions that readers have asked The Council. The process of publishing posts to answer these questions has been relatively time consuming and it’s been difficult to publish posts as frequently as we’d like.
Recently Cynthia began receiving brief inspirational messages from The Council that we’d like to share with readers. This will give readers interested in Council-related material more frequent exposure to this material. After thinking about how to present these brief posts, we’ve decided to make a change to the way content is presented on our Home page. Previously the Home page displayed only two posts: a full version of our most recent post in the wider column on the left, and a full version of a Welcome post in the narrower column on the right.
As of this post, the wider left column on the Home page will contain multiple posts rather than a single post. These posts will appear one after the other with the most recent posts at the top of the page. And rather than publish longer complete posts on the Home page, the longer posts will display only the first few paragraphs to give readers an idea what the post is about. At the end of these introductory paragraphs you’ll find a link letting you know the preceding text is an introduction and that clicking the link will take you to the full version of the post.
It’s our expectation this change will let you read multiple brief posts (we thinking of them as Councilisms) without having to leave the Home page. When you come across a longer post on the Home page you can get to the full version with a single click. We hope you enjoy these new briefer messages from The Council and we invite you to post comments with your feedback. We like to hear from you.
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Welcome
Bob & Cynthia
Welcome to Ask The Council, a blog where you can ask a group of loving and wise spirit guides a question and get an answer, for free. You can also contact us for a paid private phone session with The Council, and you can read the questions other readers have asked and the answers they’ve received. Other posts contain quotations from The Council that we hope you find inspiring, uplifting, and educational.
Ask The Council a Question
If there’s a question you’ve been thinking about and you’re curious how The Council might answer it, we encourage you to either use the blog’s Comments feature to ask your question, or contact us for a private phone session. You can click here to go to the ‘Let us know what you think about this post, or ask The Council a question’ section of this Welcome post and type your question there or you can type your question in the same section at the bottom of any post that inspires you to ask a question or leave a comment.
Since the blog is currently a project we do in our spare time it can take a while for us to do a session with The Council on a question and then publish a post on the session. Depending on the question and the session it can sometimes take weeks after a question is asked to publish a post with The Council’s answer. Please be patient.
The Council
Cynthia is able to communicate with a group of five non-physical spirit guides in a manner similar to the way Esther Hicks communicates with and speaks for the spirit guides, Abraham, and Jane Roberts communicated and spoke for the spirit guide, Seth. I (Bob) basically interview The Council as they speak through Cynthia during what we refer to as a session. Sessions generally last 5-15 minutes and are usually audio recorded. During the session Cynthia is aware of what The Council is saying and she also receives visual impressions and other types of telepathic communication from them.
The Council’s Basic Guidance
Since we began these sessions with The Council around 2009 they consistently emphasize a few basic ideas that we attempt to summarize here:
1) You are an eternal spiritual being in a physical body.
You are the energy and vibration of continuously expanding love, intelligence, and joy.
Your physical experience in your physical body and your psychological experience of your personality is a small part of the totality of who you truly are.
Let yourself imagine from time to time what it might feel like to experience more of the wondrous totality of who you really are, and don’t be surprised if you are able to experience this more often.
2) You are the creator of all that you experience.
As you open to the possibility your true nature is greater than you ordinarily perceive, it becomes easier to consider the possibility that this expanded you is truly the creator of everything that you experience.
If you’re used to thinking of yourself in a more limited sense, the idea that you are the creator of your experience may be difficult to understand. Our post, What About This Idea That We Create Whatever We Desire, offers insights into this idea.
3) You are here to expand the love you are into physical reality.
You chose, as a spiritual being, to come into this physical reality to experience the joy of expanding the love you are as a spiritual being, into this physical reality. This is your purpose for being here.
Finding Your Way Around the Blog
Home Page
The left-hand column on the Home page contain a long chronological series of posts with the most recent on top. Each post begins with a title. Clicking on a post title will take you to a blog page dedicated to that particular post. Following each post is a Like button where you can indicate to us and other readers if you like the post.
The footer section of each post identifies the date the post was published, the Categories the post has been assigned to, the keyword/keyphrase Tags assigned to the post, and a Comment link. If readers comments on a post, the Comments link will indicate the number of comments. If a post has no comments yet, the Comment link text appears as “Leave a Comment”.
Clicking on the Comments link takes you to a Comment text box on a post page dedicated to that post. Here you can type a comment in the text box and click the Post Comment button to have your comment displayed just below the text box. If you are replying to someone else’s comment, your comment will appear indented underneath the comment you are replying to.
At the bottom of the left column on the Home page is a ‘Previous Entries’ link that will take you to a page with a list of earlier posts.
Blog Features
The right-hand column of most blog pages contains this Welcome message. Below the Welcome message in the right-hand column are some useful features:
Email Subscription: Use this to subscribe to blog posts. You will receive an email notification with a link back to the blog each time a new post is published.
Search: Type a keyword or phrase and click the Search button to get a list of posts in the left column that contain the keyword or phrase.
Archives: The Archives list indicates the number of posts for each month listed. Clicking on the link for a month will display in the left column of the page a list of the posts published that month.
Categories: This is a list of keywords used to categorize posts. Posts can be included in more than one category, if applicable. Clicking on a category link will display in the left column a list of posts assigned to the category you selected.
Navigation Bar
The Navigation Bar at the top of each page contains a link to the blog Home page and links to the following additional pages:
Welcome: A link that displays this Welcome message in the left column (and the right column). At the bottom of the Welcome message is a Comment box where you can post a general comment about the blog or ask The Council a question.
Questions & Answers: Use this link to display a list of introductions to our longer posts, most of which are responses to reader questions. This is an easy way to check out these more in-depth posts. They are listed in chronological order with the most recent post on top. Clicking on the post title will take you to the page where you can read the complete post.
Contact Us: The Contact Us page contains a contact form similar to the Comment form mentioned above. The difference between the Contact Us form and the Comment forms is that the Contact Us form is a private message to us (Cynthia and Bob). It is not posted on the blog. Comments appear on the post page where the comment is posted. The Contact Us form can be used for communicating with us about private sessions or other private matters you think aren’t appropriate for posting in a public Comment.
Bob & Cynthia
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