Today is the day of Liberation for the 21 Day Consciousness Cleanse.  Debbie Ford starts out the call (had to listen to the recording) by telling us to imagine an iron shackle around your ankles, lean down, use the key in your hand and unlock the shackles.  Walk over the invisible line from our past and into the present day.  This is the day for commitment to catch up where our life's are in the present.  We have the ability to distinguish the past from the present in our mind.  The last seven days we were connecting to the ties of the past and the next seven days we are using self observation of inquiry.

We have the sweet call of our soul powered to the greatest source available to us.  We can let go of the suffering because of misperception.  Interpretation ties us to the past that no longer serves us.  Debbie goes on to read the following prayer for the present located on page 135 from the book:

Creator of the universe,
bless me on this day to make this moment holy
bring forth in me the light so that
I may know myself in the deepest way, in every way
help me keep my heart open and humble
allow me the gracious gift of the precious present
so that I can bring joy and comfort
to all that I love
I see it, I feel it, I acknowledge it right now
and so I know that it is

The present is the moment where we have only the true connection to the divine.  We give up our right when we give power to the past.  What keeps us going back is what we try to ignore and what we try to embrace.  As you go into Liberation go into the past for a moment and find your hopeless self.  Allow yourself to see that part of you now, see how old they are, lift them out of the past and bring them right here to be with you in the present.  Imagine your holding that part of you as a child on your lap, your claiming this as yours.  You deal with it by bringing it into the present and blessing it.  By knowing that it is a part of our past pain while in your lap.  Debbie goes on to read a passage from her book on page 131.  Instead of writing the passage you can play the video below to hear Debbie read the passage.  (This is powerful and enlightening!)



This is what happens when our lives fall apart; when we loose a job, loose money, loose a love or child, or find out about a health issue - We are forced to live in the past, holding onto what we knew or what was familiar.  Liberation allows us to powerfully let go of the old past and patterns.  This is when you surrender the blinders and burdens to the divine.  We mark this passage from the child to adult with Liberation.  You only need to be present in the moment, here, now.  Really feel the difference between the past and the present.  Allow yourself to see what could be different in this moment?

For me this day did not go as I had planned.  Let's back up a bit, I've had Debbie Ford's book, 21 Day Consciousness Cleanse, for months but was waiting to start the program in January.  I only read the beginning of the book where Debbie Ford tells the reader about her past and gives you insight such as; the practice and what cleansing tools you could use.  I read this portion a couple of months ago and put the book down.  I started reading day one, on day one, and have been reading each day the night before I went to bed and again the next morning along with the exercises.  I did not want to plan ahead as I wanted to be in each in the present moment.  However, I did read ahead for the beginning of this week because I had a tight schedule.  Well, I had today all planned, I was leading into today with last night.  I posted on Facebook about my big celebration but it did not feel like a celebration today.   I canceled an appointment for the day to truly feel this day as a celebration, wanted to buy myself flowers, burning items in the fire that no longer served me and then taking a Himalayan salt bath to clear away all the old "stuff".  Let's just say, NONE of that happened.

I missed today's live call because I was taking advantage of one of those moments when your child truly wants to have a deep meaningful conversation.  Hmmm, ok well this was good......
Then the phone was ringing off the hook and I flew through emails that have been sitting for weeks.  Hmmm, something is happening here......
I also realized today that two months ago I was telling others that I was not going to take on any new clients for January because I wanted to work through the 21 Day Consciousness Cleanse, this is recommended in the book. 
This month I have 4 new clients and a past client that asked me to help them out 2 days a week getting organized for the next month.  Definitely something happening here!!!!
I know what this is! I explain this to others but I did not realize it until today.  When you start to let go of what is no longer serving you, new doors of opportunity open up in your life.  I had no idea what I was going to tell everyone today on this blog but you know what?  This is exactly where I'm at in this present moment. 
Till tomorrow..... I feel so much better now!  Yes, it is a CELEBRATION!

Love Potion for Day 8
1 cup of water
1 pear
1 stalk of rainbow chard

Day 8 Lesson on Oprah.com

Kandi Phillips
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