Your Mission...should you choose to accept it....

Eckhart Tolle, prefaced his marvellous book, 'The Power of Now', with this quote.

"You are here to enable the divine pupose of the universe to unfold.

That is how important you are!"

I like to look at that as meaning also, that the universe exists to enable your divine purpose. In order to live the life you were destined to live....you must live on purpose. You must be driving the little dune buggy that is your body. Don't let the cusotms of your particular society or your family's quirks get in the way of what you were meant to do. So much that we call 'education' is actually deliberate distraction from real education. My husband was recently studying a unit of philosohy called "What is a person". It would be better to discover HOW to be real person and a good one at that.

If we meditate and separate the roads that someone put us on and the roads that were of our own choosing....you find we are generally on some chaotic LA road system that we don't really want to be on but we don't know how to get off.

I was living as a broke mother of many children, drinking too much and being genreally unhealthy and intensely depressed. I wanted to travel and meet people and perform in some way. I wanted to run with my old pack of creative souls. The drudgery of laundry, cooking, cleaning and dealing with the chaos that reigns supreme in a household that seemed to run on the patter of a million feet.....it was killing me. I had people around me telling me that I should be grateful for what I had....that motherhood and housework were my calling and that I should do those roles with style.....

That made me see red. I was born for greater things!!! Of course I discovered after a period of withdrawal, soul study and education by truly wise minds (as opposed to academic ones) that motherhood is a wonderful calling but it hadn't been my main calling. Does that make sense? I had to be on my right path or my mothering would suffer. A drinking, depressed, mega-fat mother was not a good enough mother for my children. I had to fix me and get on MY path in order to fulfill my obligations to them.

The 40 Butterfly Plan emerged after much meditation and I embraced it desperately. I kept a journal, I studied with the best of the best, I walked and thought, I meditated and stopped thinking, I painted, I filled my body with super-fuel and supplements. At the end of the journey I felt ready to be myself again. It was a moving reunion!

My painful study years at University to achieve a law degree taught me that that was not my road, although I try to use what little legal knowledge I have for good, where possible.

When I was a little girl I wanted to be a star and win an Academy Award. I was told by everyone around me that I was mad. That was not my calling, I wasn't attractive enough, thin enough, talented enough bla bla. I fought against it and did some acting, some directing, some teaching.....and then came studying, working as a bank teller, kids, marriage, bad marriage, divorce, doing it all alone....etc...mew husband....more kids....addictions to tackle, layer of blubber to lose and that little Gold man just slipped further and further from my mind.

I still have people who tease and say that the only way I'll ever get an Oscar is to have another son and call him Oscar! To them I say "Ha". The Butterfly Plan is about becoming an archeologist and dusting of all the crap to get to the real you, giving it a polish and a service and then set it free.

I managed to do that and I can hear my destiny whispering.....

The whole human world is filled with distractions and obstacles. Beware that they don't trip you up. Find true friends with a similar vision. Teach those you love to be true to their own destiny and don't spend your life sacrificing and compromising unless it is part of your spiritual growth.

The world that you expreience is almost completely of your own making. You are producing, directing and starring in your own film. So you have the ability to change the lighting, the scenery, the cast, the scipt and the ending.

That's a wrap.

Leda Fox is the author of 'The Butterfly Plan' which explores her 40 day journey to self-enlightenment. She learned how to sculpt her body to it's natural, healthy state, rise above her chronic depression without drugs and take control of her addictions. You can get an online copy at www.butterflyplan.com

Fly be free

The Divinity of our Children.

Another sunny day in August. I've been thinking about peace. The only way that the human race can possibly dwell in a climate of harmony, peace and tolerance is to teach our children to embrace these qualities and value them above all else.

Our entire Western education system is based on competition and success. We grade them and assess them and put them on a bell curve but the benchmarks that we measure them against are flawed. We should be teaching children how to relate to others and how to have enquiring, open minds to all those who have different beliefs and ways of living.

The tidal wave of behavioural disorders being seen in school, such as ADHD and various Autism spectrum disorders are a reflection of our disintergrating ability to communicate effectively with others. True understanding of our connectedness with every living organism on the planet is sadly overlooked in the curriculum. Reading, writing and arithmetic are the trimmings of real education and should not be viewed as the foundational core of schooling. We should be taking these three r's and infusing them with meaning. Teach children to write thoughtful letters to those who need them. Teach children to look at the balance sheet of this planet and decry the imbalances seen in the small percentage of those who control all the wealth and the masses who barely have enough to survive. Our children should be taught to look for solutions to the inequality, instead of being taught to contribute to the gross imbalances in this world. We should be teaching them the fundamental truth that they can individually make a huge difference - for good or bad - to this world they inhabit. Teach them to be excellent human beings. Stop teaching children the geographical borders that delineate our world and encourage them to dissolve those barriers in a spirit of humanity and friendship.

What use is the knowlege that the Earth orbits the Sun, when we fail to share the truth that all that makes up the human condition revolves around our thoughts and actions. Teach the children that they are God and that they have the power. Amen, Shalom and Namaste to you.

Leda is the author of The Butterfly Plan which explores her journey through obesity, depression and alcohol addiction and emergence after 40 days into a new life of health and joy. To get your copy go to www.butterflyplan.com

In changing yourself, you can change the world.

August 1st, 2009.

With just a gentle shift in perception and focus you have the power to alter the direction of our planet. Ghandi said that, "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." Isn't that encouraging? For so long I have believed, along with millions of others, that I was inconsequential and that my actions and thoughts were but a grain of sand on a very vast beach. Nothing could be further from the truth. Our Western society is built on a foundation of lies. What we have come to accept as reality is just a social party line to keep us "domesticated and tame". The truth is that we are individually powerful and have the ability to take the steering wheel of this planet into our own hands and direct it in a positive direction. This world we live in has a terminal disease - it is cancerous with greed and violence and addiction. We are all addicted. I confronted my own addictions and found more than I had bargained for. We are addicted to chemicals, food, love, people, pain, glory, sex, television, consumerism and the list goes on. Most of what we do every day is just born of habit. We have become drones. Movies such as 'The Matrix' were not far from the truth. If we stop eating foods that have been designed, modified and drugged to maximise profit and start eating a diet that is proper fuel for our bodies; if we prioritise our time to deal with those we love first and those we work for second; if we explore spiritual ideas that cross all borders and times instead of blindly accepting the faith we were randomly assigned by our birth position on the planet; if we challenge unjust laws and morally reprehensible practices; then we have the power to be that last little pebble that falls from the mountain, causing a landslide. Every single person has this power. In a gentle way, you alone can shake this world.

You are the universe. You are the higher intelligence.