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Sometimes I wake up in the middle of night absorbed in thinking. My mind is galloping like a herd of horses and a thunder of their hooves wakes me up. To get back to sleep I have to calm down this gallop,...

    PEACE It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart… (Unknown) What a difference a year makes, with 2014 being quite a challenge for both of us with health and family issues, but by making necessary changes and accepting the rest we looked forward to 2015 with a new focus and energy, and what better way to start the year off than to be with family on a warm and fun caribbean island, playing with our five year old grandson, enjoying spicy food and exotic drinks and swimming and relaxing on the turquoise seas and white beaches. We love being with our family but we always love to come back home… to our new home in Benalmadena Costa and focus on enjoying a wonderful year. With lots of long morning walks, good healthy food, plenty of relaxing me-time and allowing our creativity to flow for optimum health. Tom has focused his time moving with the ebb and flow of the quite volatile stock-market, while I continued to edit my first book that I had recently completed and was preparing to self-publish and market it around the world. Having recently moved to our new home and a new area, I began to attend Costa Women Business and Social meetings and parties along the Costa del Sol to meet new friends, and what magnificent adventurous ladies I came across… whom many have become good friends and have helped me prepare for my book launch that took place the first week of November and helped me create my New Website, a Non-Profit Spanish Association, a Marketing/Social Media structure and find a Printer/Distributor, IngramSpark to take care that my book comes to all the hearts ‘that are ready’ to read about my extra-ordinary journey falling in love with ‘all of myself’ and to resonate with the next stage of Humankind as we prepare to live a life of celebration and freedom on the physical plane. Not only was I ready to experience my own freedom and Enlightenment… I was ready to present my book to the world… Your Magnificent Self… A Journey to Freedom and celebrate with others the magnificent consciousness each person and all life is. During the summer we took a well earned break and went on a European Tour driving our new British car… a fiery fox Range Rover through Spain, France, Holland and England, a 6,000 km journey to visit friends and family. We had a lovely time meeting old and new friends and the highlight of our tour was to attend my baby sister’s (Angie) wedding with her new man Jon in mid July, It was a quiet, fairytale wedding with their close family and friends that we celebrated with everyone as a start of their life together. They have just returned from their month long honeymoon sailing the seas on the Queen Mary Cruise Ship from England to New York, the Caribbean and back home. Don’t get me wrong, we have still experienced some challenging times this year, but when you know that all life is a reflection of divine perfection in order for each heart to fulfil their own unique journey of creation… acceptance allows you to sail through life and be the magnificent light we each truly are. That just leaves Tom and I to wish all my family and friends a wonderful christmas time and happy 2016… and remember to love all parts of yourself no matter what the circumstance and allow yourself to shine your light out into the world that transforms the world into love joy and harmony. IAM so delighted to be able to display my first book to you that is available to purchase as an ebook and small paperback from all major physical/online bookstores around the world. Amazon.com  Maybe it’s the perfect gift for yourself this christmas time… All money raised from my books and Master Creator Classes (coming soon) go to my Non-Profit Spanish Association that funds my Creative Art Project I take into local schools to inspire our young children to explore, question and discover life around them and within them. If you would like to keep in touch with what is happening in our world, you can sign up to follow my weekly blog on my website. http://www.memymagnificentself.com Love from Barbara Franken… Master Creator Inspiring New Energy Consciousness…  

EGO-the black sheep of human existence; we burden it with so many sins. But I need my Ego. It gives me a distinct sense of myself. It helps me to decide what to buy for dinner and what hairstyle to wear. My ego puts a structure into my life, helps to choose from that infinite offer that surrounds us. It is a programme of behaviors-compromise between rules of society and my own preferences. Even if I sometimes hesitate I know what clothes I like, what food I want to eat, what books to read and films to watch, my ego/identity helps me to verify it. Trouble begins when this identity turns stiff and rigid, fortified with conviction of absolute truth. And it talks; it is actually a great talker, creating rivers and avalanches of words, stories and arguments, explaining and judging all the time. Ego can get so attached to its own form and story that it wants to dominate and overpower everyone and everything. When I want it to shut up and be quiet, it will not listen because I am no longer an authority to it. So I have to regain my authority, I have to trick it to silence and wisely let it work for me and not the other way around. The question is how? The answer is: meditation.

When I meditate I don’t go anywhere; I don’t “leave” my body and move to some fancy world of blissful happiness following a fairy-tale stories of my mind. Contrary I stay here, as close as possible to the “banal” physical world of my body. I stay with my subjective reality that I experience through my very own senses which are actually situated in the body Habitually I am constantly with my thoughts-the thinking mind. That’s why I need a change, a shift, a holiday. I don’t want to dwell on my thinking all the time. I want sometimes to stop thinking and rest.   And the best and simplest way of doing it is by placing my attention on my body. I witness its presence, what it experiences just here, just now. I scan my body moving my attention from one part to another, feeling and listening to what is going on, simply being a witness of my own existence. And when I do it, busying myself with the present, my mind switches off, disappears and suddenly I am in some wonderful place of safety, peace and acceptance. This place is simply here with me and in me, and I know that I can always get there. I can meditate.

Mindfulness has taught me a game called “I don’t know”. The point of it is to see objects without engaging thinking. It goes like that: I can see a common sparrow on my balcony. My mind is immediately producing an assessment like: “It is an unimportant bird and it leaves droppings on the balcony-no good”. But when I play that game I just look at the sparrow as if I have never seen it before. I sense the colors and form it has, I observe the way it turns its head and its constant moving; I share with it the same air and the same place. I experience its presence in my life. I can play that game with anything. Take a cup of coffee for example. I engage all my senses to receive this ordinary drink into my life. I see the shape, texture and tones of the cup, the color and density of the liquid, I feel the temperature it has and the taste of it. I sense how my body reacts to it- kinesthetic response to the sensation of coffee.  I allow myself to be in the presence of that cup. And I remove my attention from any commenting thoughts. This game is about feelings and sensations and disengaging from assessments and judgements of the intelligent mind. The skill learned there can be very useful in situations when my mind is locked, running around on a trade-mill or can’t find any explanation or solution to a certain situation. When the mind in spite of its repetitive efforts doesn’t know, truly hasn’t got a faintest I redirect my attention to my body, because it can always tell me something through feelings and sensations. So I stay with it, I concentrate on the kinesthetic feeling I have about the situation or a problem and I allow the energy in my body to move. It is really worth trying. It is also called meditation.  

When we can allow ourself to take a break from our busy life and feel the energy around us… we will feel the unrest that continues to play out globally. It’s been going on for the last 14 years but intensifying and coming closer to home. It has the tendency to make us panic, feel personally attacked and start to worry about our safety and future. It reminds us of our own past wars and fight for freedom from power hungry leaders in the western world, cruel barbaric dictators who desired nothing more than to control everyone and bring about their own ideal world. We have sacrificed many of our men & women to bring about a glimpse of freedom and have founded our western democracy, although it’s a far cry from true freedom, we know we don’t want to experience any more pain and suffering, but are we ready for true freedom? or are we going to continue to play victim in the old Human power game. The recent attack on Paris has brought the unrest to our shores. The Middle Eastern fight for freedom has created thousands of refugees who are running for safety and to find a new home in the lands of the free. Unfortunately, the great exodus brings along  bad apples; to try and entice us into their fight. These radical fanatics are not fighting for freedom, but POWER, using religion as an excuse to create they and us; the old Human game of monopolising POWER through FEAR. Thank goodness some of us realise that it is because of our own radical and negative side of society and the individual that fanatics continue to target us; firing at our weak and dark parts, to fuel their fire. We understand that like attracts like, violence attracts violence and know that warfare is not the answer because of our own experience. Unfortunately our leaders continue to respond in the old way, fuelling the fire. We have to ask ourselves, for what… because they know it doesn’t work, it only holds the old pattern of control tightly in place and creates more FEAR. So how can we end this cycle of POWER and FEAR? How can we best respond to what is happening? How can we stop our knees shaking and feeling unsafe? How can we truly be free. There is no other way than to be conscious and aware of ourself, observing ourself, feeling and sensing our own passion and desire and when we are clear and understand ourself we can serve ourself. When we realise we are loving beings of light at our core, we can begin to welcome home and embrace our own darkness and allow ourself to shine brightly in the world. Knowing light only attracts light. Knowing light shines on darkness and dissolves it. Knowing we attract everything we are, into our life. Fear attracts more fear. It is the choice of each person to choose how we want to live, in fear or in love? My question to YOU is are you ready for true FREEDOM?  If the answer is YES, then take this opportunity of unrest to focus on yourself, be clear of  your own darkness, weakness and fear and choose to LOVE all of yourself, allowing your light to dissolve the darkness and radiate light out into the world. Be conscious of yourself as a beacon of light that only attracts more light into your life. Be conscious of your part in the Magnificent Consciousness that you are and all life is; a powerful being of light that creates your life as you desire in each moment. For the last 35 years I have been on my own journey, discovering the Magnificent Consciousness we live in and the freedom I found within it. I have written about my experience in my first book Your Magnificent Self… A Journey to Freedom. My book is now a creation of consciousness of its own and is as deep as the Heavens above and the Earth and Body below and will inspire everyone to open their heart and realise their own magnificence; the love and light each person indeed is and their soul’s desire to experience a most loving, joyful and harmonious life, here on Earth. We are all Magnificent Master Creators, but dare we all choose to experience it NOW amidst the turmoil? Barbara Franken… Master CreatorInspiring New Energy Consciousness     My book can be purchased in all major online Bookstores or find the links in my store…