April 8, 2011 Daily Thought
While you believe there is great courage
In swimming up steam against the flow,
When you allow yourself to go downstream with the current,
Life can be much more satisfying.
—The Council
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April 7, 2011 Daily Thought
After each incarnation
You emerge
Alive,
More aware,
And transformed.
—The Council
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April 6, 2011 Daily Thought
There is a growing awareness
That your dreams
Are part of your reality,
And they have the potential
To be magnificent creations.
—The Council
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April 5, 2011 Daily Thought
You are in spirit’s tractor beam.
As your soul comes into this physical dimension,
You know you can never be disconnected from spirit,
And you know you can never lose your way home to spirit.
—The Council
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April 4, 2011 Daily Thought
When you realize the eternalness of your being,
Even for a second of your time,
We in spirit applaud you.
—The Council
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April 3, 2011 Daily Thought
Imagining health
Is one of the quickest ways to heal.
The power of your imagination is astounding.
When you use your imagination,
Every cell in your body is paying attention.
—The Council
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March 29, 2011 Daily Thought
When you feel tension
It’s because you’re not feeling
The love you have for yourself.
Concentrate on your Heart Chakra
Until you notice a feeling of warmth.
Focusing on this feeling
Will increase the warmth,
Ease the tension,
And allow the feeling of love.
—The Council
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Many Earth Changes
The new energy that is being sent to your planet
Will create many Earth changes.
It will affect its geology,
Weather conditions,
And the consciousness of all spirit,
Whether in a physical body or not.
—The Council
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March 27, 2011 Daily Thought
What you call ‘the planetary shift’
Is an increase in energy
Received by your planet at this time
Because you have asked for it.
It is to help you increase and expand your awareness,
And help you see and do things differently.
Meditation will help you to absorb this energy.
—The Council
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March 26, 2011 Daily Thought
For those of you
Who don’t like change
In your life,
We remind you
You didn’t want everything
To be the same everyday.
You didn’t want everything
To smell, taste, and feel the same all the time.
You came here
To experience variety and contrast.
—The Council
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March 25, 2011 Daily Thought
When you decide to let go of fear,
Love rushes in.
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March 24, 2011 Daily Thought
You, and I, and God
Are all One.
There is no separation.
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March 23, 2011 Daily Thought
Going with the flow
Doesn’t decrease your power,
It enhances it.
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March 22, 2011 Daily Thought
Each challenge in your life
Is an opportunity to reach for love;
An opportunity to change your perception
And allow more love into your experience.
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March 21, 2011 Daily Thought
There is only one kind of love.
It is limitless and unconditional.
That is what we are made of.
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March 20, 2011 Daily Thought
When we give love to others
We give love to ourselves.
When we deny love to others
We deny love to ourselves.
What you give
And what you withhold from others,
You give to or withhold from yourself.
We are all connected.
—The Council
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March 19, 2011 Daily Thought
Nothing you have ever done or will do
Will change the fact
That you are spirit,
You are love,
And you are perfect.
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March 18, 2011 Daily Thought
Miracles are not mystical.
Miracles are created every day
By a simple change of your perception.
—The Council
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March 17, 2011 Daily Thought
The vibration of love
Is the vibration of spirit.
The vibration of love
Is the creative force.
It is what created you.
Bringing the vibration of love
Into your physical reality
Is the greatest form of expansion.
—The Council
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March 16, 2011 Daily Thought
Some of you are afraid
To acknowledge your desires.
If you ignore your desires,
How will they be fulfilled?
—The Council
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March 15, 2011 Daily Thought
In each of your lives,
You nominate yourself for Best Performance,
Whether it’s a comedy or a drama.
And for each life
You always win the award,
Because it is always your best performance,
Exactly the way you created it.
—The Council
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March 14, 2011 Daily Thought
If you believe
Your journey is supposed to be
About suffering and lack,
It will be,
But it doesn’t have to be.
Your journey is not supposed to be about suffering and lack.
If you believe
Your journey is supposed to be
About sacrifice and hard work,
It will be,
But it doesn’t have to be.
It is not supposed to be about sacrifice and hard work.
If you believe
Your life needs to be difficult
In order for you to grow spiritually,
You will experience this,
But you don’t have to.
Your life is supposed to be about
Joy, and love, and happiness.
You are here to experience
The lightness of being.
You are here to experience
All the abundance
The Universe has to offer.
And you are here to experience
The ease and power of your creations.
—The Council
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March 13, 2011 Daily Thought
Imagine you are like an attractive lamp
That gives a beautiful light
And has a shade that makes the light even more beautiful.
Your heart is like the light bulb,
The rest of your body is like the lampshade
And the love you truly are is the electricity.
The more attention you give
To the vibration of love you truly are,
The more radiant your heart becomes,
And the more radiant you become.
And this beautiful radiance
Has the power to illuminate
Whatever you choose
To give your attention to.
It really does.
—The Council
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March 12, 2011 Daily Thought
You’ve heard the saying
“Getting there is half the fun”?
You knew that would be the case
When you chose physical reality.
Getting back home to spirit
Is half of the fun.
And being back home in spirit,
Appreciating your expansion
From your journey
Is the other half.
That is exactly what you planned
When you chose physical reality.
—The Council
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March 11, 2011 Daily Thought
Practice uplifting thoughts.
They will affect every area of your life.
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March 10, 2011 Daily Thought
Improvements don’t just happen.
You must use better feeling thoughts
To see results.
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March 9, 2011 Daily Thought
Life is your amusement park.
There are rides that are scary
And rides that give you
Magnificent rushes of excitement and joy.
What tickets do you choose to buy?
What rides do you repeatedly return to?
Like an amusement part,
Your life is supposed to be fun.
—The Council
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March 6, 2011 Daily Thought
Many of you have gone to doctors and therapists and energy healers.
We are here to give you the secret of healing:
It’s an inside job :-).
—The Council
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March 5, 2011 Daily Thought
Whenever you reach for the feeling of love
You are helping to raise the consciousness of your planet.
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March 4, 2011 Daily Thought
You are learning
That you create your physical world
And all you experience in it.
But does it surprise you to know
You also create your non-physical world
And all you experience as spirit?
—The Council
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March 3, 2011 Daily Thought
Pertaining to your planetary shift:
Time is speeding up in your world
So you can reach understanding quickly.
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March 2, 2011 Daily Thought
See your partners
And everyone else in your life
As divine beings
And you will experience love.
—The Council
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March 1, 2011 Daily Thought
Giving love to yourself
Is self-healing.
Love attunes your energy system to wellness.
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February 28, 2011 Daily Thought
All healing begins
With a vibrational change in your body.
You change your vibration
With your thoughts.
Every cell in your body is listening.
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February 27, 2011 Daily Thought
You choose to incarnate
Because incarnating
Brings you the joy
Of physical experience
And the joy
Of returning home
To spirit again.
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February 26, 2011 Daily Thought
Three things to remember to have a happy day:
- Know that you are spirit in a physical body.
- You have the ability to fulfill all your desires.
- Keep reaching for a better-feeling thought.
—The Council
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February 25, 2011 Daily Thought
Choose
You are a powerful being.
When you decided to enter physical form
You understood that you had free will
And the power to create all you desire.
You’re ability to choose
Is your power.
You can choose to live your life the way it’s going,
Or choose at any time to change it.
You can choose to change your thoughts
And you can choose to change your actions.
You can even choose the emotions that you experience.
Your power comes with the recognition
That you have a choice
In everything you do.
You get to choose every step of your journey
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February 24, 2011 Daily Thought
Emotions are your teachers.
They are calling for your attention
To show you the direction
You are heading in
And what you are creating.
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February 23, 2011 Daily Thought
How do you experience
The God within?
Laugh, Play.
—The Council
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February 22, 2011 Daily Thought
We understand there are many of you
Who cannot grasp the idea
Of who you really are.
That is exactly why you are here.
You wanted to experience
The fun, the surprise, and the joy
Of remembering.
We are guiding you every step of the way,
Helping you to release doubt
And experience truth.
—The Council
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2011-02-21
Many ask how you look to us.
We see only the most beautiful light
In human form.
Your light extends
Way beyond your physical body,
And is connected to us here in spirit.
We are all one.
—The Council
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2011-02-20
When you are in turmoil,
It is only because you have forgotten
We are always with you.
Your life is risk-free.
Who you really are is never in danger.
—The Council
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2011-02-19
Financial security,
Perfect relationships,
The career of your choice:
All this and more
You knew you could create
In your physical experience.
You had no doubt
That everything you desire
Will come to you
By the power of your thought.
You understood
That your enjoyment of what you desire
In your imagination,
Will easily create it
In your world of matter and form.
—The Council
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2011-02-18
Negativity always gives you the opportunity
To focus your attention on something unwanted
Or something you desire more instead.
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2011-02-17
Many are asking about negativity.
The only negativity that exists
Is what you create
So you can transform it.
—The Council
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2011-02-16
By looking at your life
You will see
What you have learned to believe.
—The Council
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2011-02-15
Many believe:
You must pray to receive what you want.
Your desires are your prayers.
—The Council
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2011-02-14
After each life,
As you remove your outer garments
(Your personality and your physical body).
What is left
Is love and light.
—The Council
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2011-02-13
After each incarnation
You add to the expansion of Oneness.
Everything is in the process of expansion,
Even Oneness.
—The Council
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2011-02-12
You are here on the physical plane to create.
It is not important what material things you create.
It is not important what opportunities you create.
What is important is seeing your creations manifested in your physical experience.
That will connect you with who you really are.
—The Council
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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.
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